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USA Today
30-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Braden Thornberry odds to win the 2025 THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson
Braden Thornberry odds to win the 2025 THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson details and info Date: May 1-4, 2025 May 1-4, 2025 Course: TPC Craig Ranch TPC Craig Ranch Location: McKinney, TX McKinney, TX Previous Winner: Rory McIlroy How to watch THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson Thursday: The Golf Channel The Golf Channel Friday: The Golf Channel The Golf Channel Saturday: CBS (KBAK-Bakersfield, CA), The Golf Channel CBS (KBAK-Bakersfield, CA), The Golf Channel Sunday: CBS (KBAK-Bakersfield, CA), The Golf Channel Watch golf on Fubo! Thornberry odds to win THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson PGA odds courtesy of BetMGM Sportsbook. Odds updated Wednesday at 3:05 AM ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access USA TODAY Sports Betting Scores Odds Hub. Thornberry odds to finish in the top 5 at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson Thornberry odds to finish in the top 10 at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson Other betting markets for Thornberry at THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson Thornberry recent performances Thornberry has played 10 tournaments this season, with zero top-10 finishes. Thornberry has an average finishing position of 56th in his past four appearances.
Middle East Eye
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Senior British MP rages at 'delusional' pro-Israel lawyer in parliament meeting
A British parliamentary hearing on Israel and Palestine on Tuesday afternoon became unusually heated when a pro-Israel lawyer clashed with the chair of the foreign affairs select committee over Gaza. Natasha Hausdorff, director of the pro-Israel advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), was grilled by the committee of MPs, which scrutinises government policy. The MPs heard evidence from Hausdorff as part of an ongoing inquiry into the Israel-Palestine conflict. Hausdorff's organisation, UKLFI, recently threatened to mount a legal challenge against the British government over its partial suspension of arms sales to Israel. Middle East Eye revealed last September that UKLFI asked the Israeli government for help to fight the threat of legal action by two NGOs working in the occupied Palestinian territories. New MEE newsletter: Jerusalem Dispatch Sign up to get the latest insights and analysis on Israel-Palestine, alongside Turkey Unpacked and other MEE newsletters The session got off to a rocky start when senior Labour MP Emily Thornberry, the chair, repeatedly asked Hausdorff what a positive future would look like for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Hausdorff responded by calling for the defeat of Hamas and an end to "indoctrination and incentivisation to terror". Thornberry, unimpressed, said, "let's keep ourselves calm," and restated the question. Hausdorff eventually suggested a "start-up culture in the West Bank". "The public will have heard your answers," Thornberry concluded. As the session went on and MPs put questions to Hausdorff, Thornberry became visibly more frustrated. Israeli foreign minister planned to cut London trip short before UK blocked arrest attempt Read More » The lawyer insisted that Israel has sovereignty over the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem - areas that the United Nations, International Court of Justice and British government consider to be Palestinian territory under Israeli occupation. Hausdorff threw scorn on the major international institutions and said they could not be trusted. Thornberry pressed her on the issue. "It's not the Israeli government's position that Israel's border goes from the river to the sea?" she asked multiple times. Hausdorff responded that Israel "does not need to state that", insisting it was simply the reality. Abtisam Mohamed, the Labour MP recently denied entry to Israel on the grounds that she would promote "hate speech", which she strongly denied, stepped in to ask a question. Hausdorff was on the radio publicly endorsing Israel's decision to deny her entry just weeks ago. Mohamed repeatedly asked Hausdorff whether she believed Palestinians have a right to their own state, eventually yielding a negative response: "Not according to international law, no." 'Oh no, no, no, nah, nah, nah' The most extraordinary part of the session was still to come. Questioned on whether Israel is obeying international humanitarian law in Gaza, Hausdorff said that the "two entities I'm aware of that Israel has shared elements of sensitive intelligence with," the United States and Britain, "have consistently said they do not have concerns about Israel's approach to humanitarian law so far as-" Thornberry interjected. "Oh no, no, no, nah, nah, nah," the committee chair said loudly. "No, no, no. That is an extraordinary allegation." Hausdorff appeared exasperated. UK Lawyers for Israel sought Israeli help in dispute with Palestine NGOs Read More » "Be careful what you're saying," Thornberry warned her. "I beg your pardon?" Hausdoff replied. She complained that she had come to parliament "in good faith" yet had been "told to be quiet" while answering questions. "Please answer this question accurately and with care," Thornberry said. She then suggested that Britain is not selling arms to Israel that can be used in Gaza because there is a risk of Israel breaching humanitarian law. Hausdorff insisted that the UK's concerns regarding international law had "nothing to do with the arms that have been embargoed", accusing the government of making a "political" decision that was "deeply deeply troubling". The pro-Israel lawyer landed herself in hot water with another member of the committee by claiming that the Israeli military has conducted itself with more respect for international humanitarian law than any other army in history. Labour MP Alex Ballinger appeared infuriated. "I take your claim that the [Israeli army] has the highest standards of international humanitarian law for any army in history as outrageous," he said. "Having served in the British military myself, I think that is a particularly staggering claim." Hausdorff responded by pointing to British military figures who had made the same claim. Towards the end of the session, asked about Israel blocking aid from entering Gaza, Hausdorff was reprimanded by Thornberry yet again for speaking about historical incidents. "Answer the question that you've been asked," Thornberry told her. "You've been asked specifically about aid not getting in and you're talking about another period of time." Hausdorff claimed that "if indeed individuals are facing food insecurity in Gaza", it is because Hamas is stealing aid. She added that the UK's policy is to "encourage Hamas" - at which point Thornberry could be heard saying: "Delusional, delusional. "Extraordinary, extraordinary." Less heated exchanges The exchanges were unusually fiery for a meeting of the foreign affairs select committee. Before Hausdorff's appearance, the committee had questioned Shelly Tal Meron, a member of the Knesset and the centrist Yesh Atid Party, over video. It was a relatively relaxed and uneventful meeting in which Meron said she supported a two-state solution but that "we have to insist on" eliminating Hamas and defended the Israeli military. These were all views she had previously publicly expressed. Emily Thornberry rebukes Israel's ambassador, says Israel broke ceasefire deal Read More » Also more calm was a session with pro-Israel British commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti after Hausdorff left. Sacerdoti was grilled on whether he supported an end to the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. He said there were good arguments on both sides. Thornberry asked him what peace looked like. "Demilitarisation, deradicalisation, de-jihadism, educating [Palestinians] towards living peacefully with your neighbours," Sacerdoti said. The foreign affairs select committee recently visited Israel, which provoked a row after Thornberry revealed in March that Israel's deputy foreign minister had posted secretly filmed footage of her and other MPs on Instagram without her "knowledge or consent". Relations between certain British parliamentarians and the Israeli government are not at their best.
USA Today
17-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Braden Thornberry odds to win the 2025 Corales Puntacana Championship
Braden Thornberry odds to win the 2025 Corales Puntacana Championship Corales Puntacana Championship details and info Date: April 17-20, 2025 April 17-20, 2025 Course: Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course) Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course) Location: Punta Cana, DOM Punta Cana, DOM Previous Winner: Billy Horschel How to watch the Corales Puntacana Championship Thursday: The Golf Channel The Golf Channel Friday: The Golf Channel The Golf Channel Sunday: The Golf Channel Watch golf on Fubo! Thornberry odds to win the Corales Puntacana Championship PGA odds courtesy of BetMGM Sportsbook. Odds updated Wednesday at 9:03 PM ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access USA TODAY Sports Betting Scores Odds Hub. Thornberry odds to finish in the top 5 at the Corales Puntacana Championship Thornberry odds to finish in the top 10 at the Corales Puntacana Championship Other betting markets for Thornberry at the Corales Puntacana Championship Thornberry recent performances Thornberry is still seeking his first top-10 finish this season (he has played nine tournaments). Thornberry has not finished inside the top 20 in his past four events, with an average finish of 70th.
Telegraph
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Recognising Palestine would be a huge mistake for Labour
There is a distasteful irony in the attitude that those on the progressive Left have towards Britain. On the one hand, they delight in the fact that in our post-empire decline, we have significantly less influence on world events than was the case even a few decades ago. On the other hand, they frequently indulge in the fallacy that policy decisions taken by the British government will have significant repercussions on conflicts thousands of miles away. Palestine is a good example of this Janus-like approach to diplomacy. Emily Thornberry, the Labour chair of the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee, has called on the Government officially to recognise Palestine as a state, a position that Labour held for a time in opposition. The idea of unilaterally recognising a hypothetical state with no borders, no capital and no president or prime minister and governed by actual terrorists was always a poor one, based – as are so many such gestures – on virtue signalling to a particular section of the domestic electorate. But to press ahead with recognition now, following the violence triggered by Hamas's terrorist atrocities against Israeli citizens, would be political perversion. Let us be clear what Thornberry – and, reportedly, French president Emmanuel Macron – wants: international recognition for a group of people led by an Islamist death cult that refuses to recognise its next-door neighbour, Israel, and in fact wants its complete destruction, to be rewarded for their blood-curdling, armed belligerence. In their naiveté, Thornberry and a number of her Labour colleagues believe that the priority of Arab nations is to create an independent Palestinian state and that recognising one, however amorphous its borders and however contestable its choice of capital, will somehow, by a mysterious process of osmosis, result in a peaceful Middle East. Once you give the Palestinians their own homeland, they will stop campaigning to kill all the Jews, goes the optimistic theory. But this misunderstands Arab opinion in the Middle East. Israel's neighbours have not repeatedly tried to destroy it because they feel aggrieved about the plight of the Palestinians: they want Israel gone because it is a Jewish state. Their priority is Israel's destruction, not Palestinian statehood. As Lord Austin, formerly the Labour MP, Ian Austin, now an independent cross-bencher in the Lords, has pointed out, Britain doesn't have enough influence to wield as far as the Middle East Peace Process is concerned, but it has enough influence to help make things worse. With absolutely no agreement on how a new Palestine-Israel border would be secured and policed, no agreement on the future of the settlements on the West Bank, no agreement on the status of Jerusalem or the Temple Mount, granting recognition of Palestine would be like selling plots of land on the Moon to gullible buyers: a nice idea but of no practical value whatever. There is another, even more egregious hypocrisy in the Left's support for Palestinian recognition: how dare developed, mainly white, Christian countries with their own histories of colonialism, decree from afar, and without consulting the people directly involved, that they will officially recognise a country with no borders and led by a gang of racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic thugs? Colonialism for the internet age, perhaps. Palestine is becoming the trigger point for British Muslims. Labour since the 1950s has been reliably pro-Zionist, especially in government. But the severing of the link between the party and the Muslim community began in 2003, with the decision by Tony Blair to join the US-led invasion of Iraq. Two years later, former Labour MP George Galloway won the formerly safe Labour seat of Bethnal Green for his Respect Party, then went on to win two spectacular by-election victories in previously safe Labour seats. In 2024, Labour was shocked by the loss of four seats to independent 'pro-Gaza' candidates and many others with large Muslim populations saw their majorities stripped to the bone. Acceding to Thornberry's request to recognise Palestine, therefore, will seem an attractive proposal to many MPs and ministers if they think it will reverse the flow of support currently heading away from the party. And what real difference would it make, after all? It's such a small housekeeping detail with no real-world impact, so why not? The simple answer is that Palestinian recognition would change nothing as far as the plight of ordinary Palestinians are concerned. But as for their leadership, as for Hamas and its fellow Islamist terror organisations Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, as for those groups' paymasters in Iran, it would be seen as confirmation that ruthless, cold-blooded slaughter can be used to lever concessions from gullible Western states led by gullible elected representatives and gullible select committee chairs.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Recognising Palestine would be a huge mistake for Labour
There is a distasteful irony in the attitude that those on the progressive Left have towards Britain. On the one hand, they delight in the fact that in our post-empire decline, we have significantly less influence on world events than was the case even a few decades ago. On the other hand, they frequently indulge in the fallacy that policy decisions taken by the British government will have significant repercussions on conflicts thousands of miles away. Palestine is a good example of this Janus-like approach to diplomacy. Emily Thornberry, the Labour chair of the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee, has called on the Government officially to recognise Palestine as a state, a position that Labour held for a time in opposition. The idea of unilaterally recognising a hypothetical state with no borders, no capital and no president or prime minister and governed by actual terrorists was always a poor one, based – as are so many such gestures – on virtue signalling to a particular section of the domestic electorate. But to press ahead with recognition now, following the violence triggered by Hamas's terrorist atrocities against Israeli citizens, would be political perversion. Let us be clear what Thornberry – and, reportedly, French president Emmanuel Macron – wants: international recognition for a group of people led by an Islamist death cult that refuses to recognise its next-door neighbour, Israel, and in fact wants its complete destruction, to be rewarded for their blood-curdling, armed belligerence. In their naiveté, Thornberry and a number of her Labour colleagues believe that the priority of Arab nations is to create an independent Palestinian state and that recognising one, however amorphous its borders and however contestable its choice of capital, will somehow, by a mysterious process of osmosis, result in a peaceful Middle East. Once you give the Palestinians their own homeland, they will stop campaigning to kill all the Jews, goes the optimistic theory. But this misunderstands Arab opinion in the Middle East. Israel's neighbours have not repeatedly tried to destroy it because they feel aggrieved about the plight of the Palestinians: they want Israel gone because it is a Jewish state. Their priority is Israel's destruction, not Palestinian statehood. As Lord Austin, formerly the Labour MP, Ian Austin, now an independent cross-bencher in the Lords, has pointed out, Britain doesn't have enough influence to wield as far as the Middle East Peace Process is concerned, but it has enough influence to help make things worse. With absolutely no agreement on how a new Palestine-Israel border would be secured and policed, no agreement on the future of the settlements on the West Bank, no agreement on the status of Jerusalem or the Temple Mount, granting recognition of Palestine would be like selling plots of land on the Moon to gullible buyers: a nice idea but of no practical value whatever. There is another, even more egregious hypocrisy in the Left's support for Palestinian recognition: how dare developed, mainly white, Christian countries with their own histories of colonialism, decree from afar, and without consulting the people directly involved, that they will officially recognise a country with no borders and led by a gang of racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic thugs? Colonialism for the internet age, perhaps. Palestine is becoming the trigger point for British Muslims. Labour since the 1950s has been reliably pro-Zionist, especially in government. But the severing of the link between the party and the Muslim community began in 2003, with the decision by Tony Blair to join the US-led invasion of Iraq. Two years later, former Labour MP George Galloway won the formerly safe Labour seat of Bethnal Green for his Respect Party, then went on to win two spectacular by-election victories in previously safe Labour seats. In 2024, Labour was shocked by the loss of four seats to independent 'pro-Gaza' candidates and many others with large Muslim populations saw their majorities stripped to the bone. Acceding to Thornberry's request to recognise Palestine, therefore, will seem an attractive proposal to many MPs and ministers if they think it will reverse the flow of support currently heading away from the party. And what real difference would it make, after all? It's such a small housekeeping detail with no real-world impact, so why not? The simple answer is that Palestinian recognition would change nothing as far as the plight of ordinary Palestinians are concerned. But as for their leadership, as for Hamas and its fellow Islamist terror organisations Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, as for those groups' paymasters in Iran, it would be seen as confirmation that ruthless, cold-blooded slaughter can be used to lever concessions from gullible Western states led by gullible elected representatives and gullible select committee chairs. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
