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A strong US-Israel relationship benefits not only the Middle East but the world, and that will come when our enemies know messing with us is not worth the trouble.  By JUDAH WAXELBAUM NOVEMBER 20, 2024 04:06 US REPRESENTATIVE Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is applauded by US House Speaker Mike Johnson during a meeting with House Republicans in Washington, last week. President-elect Donald Trump has named Stefanik the next US ambassador to the UN, among other pro-Israel cabinet choices. (photo credit: Allison Robbert/Reuters) Donald Trump is heading back to the White House, and with him, a return to ironclad support for the US-Israel relationship. Trump ushered in new levels of Israeli normalization in the Middle East during his first term, and he is poised to pick up where he left off. The

Shortly after Donald Trump snagged the US 2024 election, Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes uttered the words that would ripple across the nation and the globe as a whole: “Your body, my choice”. This comment mirrors Trumps’ plan to ban women’s right to pregnancy termination in every state as well as being a dog whistle for rape culture as the US politics seem to be regressing when it comes to women’s rights and autonomy. In a post that went viral on Reddit, a woman shared that her own sister had disowned her after her husband said Fuentes’ now infamous phrase. “My sister freaked out when she realised my husband and I voted for Trump because she assumed we would vote for Kamala. Things got heated and my husband ended up saying, ‘your

In his poem The Right to Dream (1995), Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano imagines “how the world will be in 2025”. He dreams of a better future where there is respect for nature, equality and peace. Unfortunately, 2025 is coming up and we are nowhere near fulfilling Galeano’s dream. In fact, we increasingly find ourselves in a situation where the survival of human civilisation is at stake. This year alone, millions of people worldwide experienced extreme climate events, groundbreaking temperatures, genocide, and deadly exposure to toxic chemicals and pollution leading to mass death, injury, displacement, poverty, and trauma. While the near future seems bleak, our education systems are nowhere near providing children with the right tools and knowledge to help them understand it. Schools continue to be battlegrounds for the building

The first day at a new job is always weird. You have no idea what you’re supposed to be doing, who to talk to, or how to even really be. The theory is that over time you get the hang of it — but lots of workers make it months into their jobs and feel like they’re still kind of winging it. It’s not that they don’t want to learn; it’s that nobody’s teaching them. In many pockets of corporate America, on-the-job training mostly amounts to “figure it out.” Workers are struggling to get a handle on their jobs, and this failure falls on everyone — companies, managers, human-resources departments, and, in some cases, the workers themselves. You don’t need to look far to find evidence that people don’t feel

Americans felt the vibe – that American wokeness and moral self-doubt were insidious weaknesses. Therefore, they ruled that the Obama era must finally end. By DAVID M. WEINBERG NOVEMBER 17, 2024 09:09 FORMER US president Barack Obama speaks during a presidential election campaign rally for then-candidate Kamala Harris in Philadelphia last month. (photo credit: KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS) More than last week’s US presidential vote being a victory for Donald Trump, it was a searing defeat for Barack Obama. This month’s real headline is “Trump thrashes Obama again.” In a torrent of impassioned campaign stops over the past two months, former president Obama made it clear that this election was a referendum on his policies. He explicitly warned that unless Kamala Harris was elected president, everything that he stood for and worked

Cairo, Egypt – The reception of the Palestine Hospital was busy as usual in early November, but the mood among the Palestinian staff was clouded by an approaching anniversary. On November 11, 2004, a thunderbolt announcement on all major networks: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat had died in Paris – poisoned with polonium-210, according to an investigation by Al Jazeera and French, Swiss and Russian scientists. Yasser Arafat was not the only icon the Palestinian people lost that year – his brother Fathi was deathly ill as well, in a coma due to his stomach cancer. As Yasser lay ill and dying, Fathi woke from his coma suddenly and asked, “Where’s Yasser, is he OK?” Fathi’s son Tarek told Al Jazeera. He replied, back then, “He is fine, Dad, in Ramallah,”

THE author is an Emeritus Professor of Politics at London Metropolitan University, UK, and a regular communist in both the Daily Graphic and Daily Statesman newspapers. Prof. Haynes seeks to challenge simplistic portrayals of the political career of Flt-Lt Jerry Rawlings to examine the complex interactions between state institutions, civil society, public welfare and global influences in Ghana’s political evolution. Upon my first reading of the review copy during my leisure time, I knew it had a vast potential for intellectual trouble.  It is that very fact that makes it such a valuable and worthwhile publication. For me, reading the book is just like a rare breed of sweet wine whose taste still lingers in the mouth and makes the taste buds want more. Questions The book effectively addresses many