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 Blaze: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) drew the ire of the president when she publicly and proudly made horrific comments regarding Charlie Kirk in the wake of his murder. “I do believe those of you who are interested in rewriting this hateful man’s history are full of s**t,” Omar told her audience to the shocking sound of applause. “I don’t know. I think you’re the one that’s full of s**t, Ilhan, because you guys have to keep misrepresenting the things that he said to try to paint him as some sort of hateful person,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says, disturbed. President Trump is on the same page as Gonzales. “I think she should be impeached. I think she’s terrible. Is she originally from Somalia? So, how are they doing this? How’s their government? Do they have a president? Do they have a council? Do they have anything? Do they have police? I love these people. They come from a place with nothing. Nothing. No anything. And then they tell us how to run our country,” President Trump to...

AA: Oman welcomes UAE-Israel agreement Like neighboring Gulf state of Bahrain, Oman praises new agreement as 'historic' move One of the things that made this agreement possible was Trump's support for Israel annexation of the West Bank.  This had the effect of negative consequences for Palestinian intransigence on a deal with Israel.  It made the failure to negotiate in good faith have consequences finally.  In the past, the Palestinians and the Arab states had no real incentive to do a deal.   What these Arab states are doing is giving the Palestinians time to come to their sense an do a deal with Israel.

Reuters: Iran has stepped up weapons transfers to the Houthis, the militia fighting the Saudi-backed government in Yemen, U.S., Western and Iranian officials tell Reuters, a development that threatens to prolong and intensify the 19-month-old war. The increased pace of transfers in recent months, which officials said include missiles and small arms, could exacerbate a security headache for the United States, which last week struck Houthi targets with cruise missiles in retaliation for failed missile attacks on a U.S. Navy destroyer. Much of the recent smuggling activity has been through Oman, which neighbors Yemen, including via overland routes that take advantage of porous borders between the two countries, the officials said. That raises a further quandary for Washington, which views the tiny Gulf state as a strategic interlocutor and ally in the conflict-ridden region. A senior U.S. administration official said that Washington had informed Oman of its concerns, without speci...

Amir Taheri: As Iran builds naval power, it looks to Oman as the big prize Iran is trying to implement some of the Shah’s plans for building a blue-water navy with Oman as an important mooring facility Well, Obama is probably providing the funding for the port expansion and creating a blue water navy for Iran, as he pulls US ships out of the region.  Oman would provide the nearest ports outside the Straights of Hormuz.

Fuel Fix: In a remote stretch of the Omani desert, row after row of long, curved mirrors collect the sun’s energy. Similar facilities have been gathering sunlight in the Southern California desert for years, using the focused light to generate electricity. In Oman, however, the facility generates steam. Pipes shunt the steam underground, where it coaxes heavy oil from the rocks. The new solar steam plant is the first of its kind in the Middle East. It was built by GlassPoint Solar, a Fremont company that uses renewable power to squeeze oil from the ground. GlassPoint, which has raised about $32 million in venture capital, has a small pilot plant in Kern County that has been generating steam for two years. The Oman plant, whose successful startup the company announced Tuesday, is 27 times bigger, producing an average of 50 tons of steam per day. It may seem odd that a country perched on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula would need solar power to pump oil. But the arrangement makes sens...