The IAP is Utah's largest third party, the 'Constitution Solution' Party, and is the lone conservative option for Voters in Utah or Nationally. While the GOP uses an elephant logo, and Dems use a donkey, the IAP uses a uniquely American symbol, the white American Bison, which is an emblem of the divine for Native American and First Nation peoples as well as signifying 'big powerful medicine.'
our National Flag is also called 'The Red, White, and Blue' but do you know it portends three major political parties which also symbolize our Nation?
...who the "Red" party is (the Republican or GOP)
... who the "Blue" party is (the Democrats) ...
... why the Independent American Party, of course !!
(proverb provided by Cliven Bundy, 2018 IAP State Convention)
The Independent American Party, or IAP, is truly conservative (more conservative than the 'progressive' Republicans, as we have been 100% Pro-Life since our beginning and still are).
We are more Constitutional than the Constitution Party (we are known as the 'Constitution Solution' party). We are very involved in local, state, and national issues (check out our advocate page and out-reach to all the Americas) with the Proper Role of Government, Constitutional Principles, and 15 Principles of Liberty and Good Government, thereby educating and 'transforming' our members and positively 'disrupting' their governments into being 'Better Governments' for their fellow citizens.
Don't you want to be part of all that and help make everything better for your fellow citizens?
"The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it." ------ Samuel Adams, 1774
UTAH IAP firmly stands with Israel in their defensive war against Humas in Gaza for the past horrendous 15-months.
We rejoiced with Israel over the CEASEFIRE's attempt at getting ALL the hostages back home, along with the bodies of the deceased hostages, troop withdrawals, establishing a 'proper government' in Gaza, etc. We looked forward to the forthcoming reunions and the true healing of the region. BUT THAT APPEARs TO BE ALL OVER NOW!
WE PRAY FOR PEACE AND SAFETY OF CITIZENS AND FAMILIES OF BOTH SIDES, AS WELL AS HOPE FOR 'A QUICK and PEACEFUL END' OF ALL OF THESE HOSTILITIES without further involvement or interference by outside agitators (Iran, Hezbollah, etc.)
Mick Krever, Lauren Izso, Abeer Salman, Kareem Khadder, Jo Shelley and Catherine Nicholls, CNN Wed, March 19, 2025
The Israeli military said Wednesday that it had launched “targeted ground activities” in Gaza, partially recapturing a key area in the territory, a day after launching an aerial bombardment of the Strip that shattered the two-month-old ceasefire with Hamas.
The operation followed Israel’s renewed bombardment of Gaza the day before, shattering the fragile ceasefire with Hamas. Israel accused Hamas of “repeatedly” refusing to release hostages and rejecting offers from mediators. Hamas, in turn, blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of unilaterally upending the truce and putting hostages “at risk of an unknown fate.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Wednesday that its troops “began targeted ground activities in the central and southern Gaza Strip in order to expand the security zone and to create a partial buffer between northern and southern Gaza.”
“As part of the ground activities, the troops expanded their control further to the center of the Netzarim Corridor,” the military said.
Hamas called the latest offensive a “new and dangerous breach” of the ceasefire agreement. The militant group, in a statement Wednesday, said it remained committed to the ceasefire agreement it signed with Israel back in January.
Dozens of people were killed in strikes across Gaza on Wednesday, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal.
In Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, 24 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a funeral home, Basal said. Another 21 people, including six children, were killed in a strike on the Gaza City neighborhood of Al-Sabra, according to Basal.
Under January’s ceasefire deal, Israel had withdrawn from the Netzarim Corridor, a key strip of land that splits Gaza in half, dividing the central Gaza City and northern Gaza from the southern parts of the Strip that borders Egypt.
Although Israel withdrew from the corridor, foreign military contractors have continued to man checkpoints between northern and southern Gaza.
After the truce became effective, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians filed through the corridor by foot, car and in some cases by donkeys, with many of them returning to homes that had been destroyed after 15 months of Israeli bombardment.
Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday killed more than 400 people in Gaza, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry, making it one of the war’s deadliest days.
Defense Minister Israel Katz warned on Wednesday that the residents of Gaza will “pay the full price” if Israeli hostages are not returned and Hamas remains able to govern in the Strip.
An Israeli official said Tuesday that the airstrikes in Gaza were the first phase in a series of escalatory military actions aimed at pressuring Hamas into releasing more hostages, marking a return to Netanyahu’s view that military pressure is the most effective way to secure the release of hostages.
So far, the Israeli military has brought just eight living hostages back to Israel, out of 251 taken by Hamas and its allies on October 7, 2023. The vast majority have been released as part of ceasefire deals in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
On Wednesday, the United Nations said one of their international aid workers was killed by an “explosive ordnance” at the UN guesthouse in central Gaza, and five others were injured.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza blamed the attack on the Israeli military, which the IDF denied, saying it had not conducted an airstrike in the vicinity of the guesthouse.
Jorge Moreira da Silva, head of the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), told reporters at a press conference in Brussels that the attack happened at a UN guesthouse in Deir al-Balah that was frequently used by UN staff.
The location was known to the IDF and in an isolated area with no other buildings nearby, he said. Da Silva said the guesthouse had come under attack multiple times this week. “Two days ago there was a near miss to this premises, and yesterday the premises was hit, and today there was another hit, unfortunately with these casualties,” he said.
“It cannot be categorized as an accident,” he added, stressing that “attacks on humanitarian premises are a breach of international law.”
A spokesperson for the Israeli foreign ministry said late Wednesday that a Bulgarian citizen working for the UN had died in Gaza, but it was not immediately clear if the Bulgarian was the same person mentioned in the UN’s statement.
Video filmed by CNN at the scene showed a hole on the side of the building.
Trevor Ball, a former US Army senior explosive ordnance disposal team member who reviewed the footage, said weapon fragments from the scene are consistent with the M339, an Israeli tank projectile.
Damage from the building is also consistent with a tank round, Ball said, and points to a pretty direct impact.
Nic Jenzen-Jones, director at Armament Research Services (ARES) who also analyzed the footage, said the “remnants appear to be from an Israeli 120 mm tank projectile, most likely the M339 multi-purpose model.”
CNN asked the IDF whether they were investigating the possibility that the strike could have been caused by Israeli tank fire. A spokesperson said: “We have nothing to add at the moment. If new information arises, we will publish it.”
Meanwhile, the renewed war drew thousands of protesters to Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem. Critics of Netanyahu’s government accuse the prime minister of using the war to shore up his shaky coalition.
Later on Wednesday, police clashed with demonstrators and arrested 12 people at an anti-Netanyahu rally in Jerusalem, they said in a statement. People were protesting the prime minister’s plan to fire the chief of the Shin Bet security service, Ronen Bar.
Video from the scene shows a row of police officers face-to-face with a group of demonstrators. Police officers are seen pushing the protesters as they try to make them walk in a certain direction. Another image from the scene shows a police officer grabbing an elderly protester by the torso.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Israel Police said that they had deployed crowd-control measures after demonstrators “severely disrupted public order, including by setting fires in the middle of the roadway, creating a significant risk to fellow protesters.”
The initial first phase is a ceasefire for six-weeks with hostage/prisoner exchange,
The six-week ceasefire appears to have collapse as Israel has reopened full military action.
We all await to see if negotiations will re-start a ceasefire and restore a facade of peace.
We condemn the on-going war, military invasion, all military actions and war-crimes against the families & children of Ukraine by Putin and his Russian Military leadership since Feb. 24, 2022! Now, OVER three years ago) !
But this has really been going on longer than that, for over a decade!!
We also continue to condemn the unprovoked invasion of Crimea by Russia in 2014, the War in the Donbas (2014-2022), as well as the current escalation!
The horrendous and needless loss of tens of thousands lives (on both sides) is more than appalling and the astounding financial costs ... have become so much more than criminal, it has become literally a crime against humanity! And this all falls in the lap, on the head and hands of Putin! (who doesn't care!) All Ukraine has done is defend their land and their people, their families and way of life from a criminal invader!
We fully support UKRAINE as a Legitimate, Independent & Sovereign Nation and condemn the Russian imposition, the totally unwarranted military incursion (aka: invasion & an act of WAR!) and associated War Crimes on the soil of Ukraine, against the people & families & children of UKRAINE!!
Kieran KellyWed, March 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Donald Trump has offered to take ownership of Ukrainian power plants to protect the country against further Russian attacks.
In the first call between the leaders since their Oval Office row, the US president suggested to Volodymyr Zelensky that he take over Ukraine’s electrical and nuclear power plants, saying American ownership “would be the best protection”.
Trump said: “The United States could be very helpful in running those plants with its electricity and utility expertise.”
During the hour-long call, which the White House described as “fantastic”, Zelensky asked for more Patriot defence missile systems, which have played a crucial role in protecting the country’s infrastructure from Russian missiles.
Trump agreed to help, offering to find what was available in Europe, a White House statement said.
Only Germany has come forward with a single Patriot missile battery in an answer to Ukraine’s latest request.
The discussion is likely to frustrate Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, who demanded an end to military aid and intelligence to Kyiv during his call with the US president on Tuesday.
Not only did Trump confirm his support for further military equipment in Ukraine, but Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, confirmed that “intelligence sharing in terms of defence of Ukraine will continue to be shared”.
In another slight to Putin, who offered to host a Russia versus US ice hockey match as a rapprochement gesture, she said: “We’re more interested in securing a peace deal than scheduling hockey games right now.”
So far, the US has not offered a concrete security deal to end the war but has proposed a minerals deal which would give America access to rare earth minerals worth $300 billion.
Controlling Ukraine’s energy infrastructure would be a significant step further and offer a security backstop for the region without the need for military intervention.
Ukraine operates four nuclear power plants with a total of 15 reactors, including Zaporizhzhia, which has been under Russian control since 2022.
Russia’s attacks against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure mean Kyiv’s capacity is now at around a third of what it was at the beginning of 2022.
American companies could profit from rebuilding and managing the power plants, and although a financial arrangement wasn’t mentioned during the call, ownership would likely provide much quicker returns than the proposed minerals deal.
The move would likely mean that Ukraine would lose control of its nuclear capabilities. Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear arsenal 30 years ago and pledged not to “accept, produce or acquire nuclear weapons”, but a November report by a Ukrainian think tank said that the country could construct a crude nuclear device “within months” using plutonium extracted from spent fuel from its power plants.
On Mar 19,Zelensky said he had “a positive, very substantive, and frank conversation” with Trump.
He said: “I thanked President Trump and the American people for their support. I stressed that Ukrainians want peace, which is why Ukraine accepted the proposal for an unconditional ceasefire.”
The pair discussed children who had gone missing from Ukraine during the war, including the ones who had been abducted. The White House said: “President Trump promised to work closely with both parties to help make sure those children were returned home.”
Notably, in the statement released by Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State and Mike Waltz, the National Security advisor, they mentioned Zelensky thanked Trump on four separate occasions. This was after Zelensky was asked by JD Vance: “Have you said thank you once? During this entire meeting?” as he was set upon by the US vice president.
Yesterday, Zelensky said: “One of the first steps toward fully ending the war could be ending strikes on energy and other civilian infrastructure. I supported this step, and Ukraine confirmed that we are ready to implement it.”
Putin also signalled his willingness to stop the energy infrastructure attacks, but on Wednesday morning, Zelensky accused Putin of breaking that agreement after Russian drones targeted infrastructure across Ukraine. Moscow later said Ukraine hit an oil depot in southern Russia.
Zelensky said: “If the Russians will not strike our facilities, then we will definitely not strike theirs.”
But a prisoner swap touted as a confidence-building step went ahead, with each side exchanging 175 troops and another 22 wounded Ukrainians released as a perceived goodwill gesture from Russia.
Zelensky said: “Ukrainian and American teams are ready to meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to continue coordinating steps toward peace.”
It is thought that a Russian negotiation team will also meet with US officials in Jeddah on Sunday.
On Mar 20, military chiefs from more than 30 countries will meet in London to discuss a peace keeping force in the event a ceasefire is agreed.
Late on Wednesday, Russia was reported to have carried out “massive” air strikes on the front-line Ukrainian city of Kupiansk.
“The enemy is carrying out massive airstrikes on Kupiansk,” the regional governor said. “Critical infrastructure has been damaged, and fires have broken out at civilian facilities”.
Authorities were trying establish if there had been any casualties, he added.
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