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The Republican senator from Arkansas said citizens should “take matters into your own hands” against demonstrators who have stepped up their civil disobedience to protest Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

What does it say about a cause that won’t weed out its worst members or stamp out its worst ideas?

It was one of the largest demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government since the start of the war in October.

A conservative convoy gathered on the Texas border to support the state’s defiant stance on immigration. Despite worries over potential violence, the event was peaceful.

With the opposition in jail or off the ballots in a boycott, the prime minister for the past 15 years was expected to maintain her grip on power in what appeared to be a low-turnout vote.