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Political Reporter comments. Headline: Biden praises anti-Netanyahu speech amid deepening rift with Israeli prime minister Sub-headline: US president says call by most senior Democrat in the Senate for a new government reflects views of ‘many Americans’ https://www.ft.com/content/c9be1aae-ef22-498f-9c79-54182f0105b9 With the number … Continue reading →

Political Observer comments. Headline: Is there a way out of the Israeli-Palestinian trap? Sub-headline: Both sides are right to fear destruction, but change is not impossible https://www.ft.com/content/459c1bad-a121-42da-8685-d639d6ca4073 As a critic, let me focus on these paragraphs of Harari’s History Made … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. Mr. Miller has impressive credentials: … Between 1978 and 2003, Miller served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on … Continue reading →

Political Observer & Political Cynic __https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/03/15/macron-repeats-nothing-excluded-on-ukraine-rebuts-accusations-of-electoral-opportunism_6621643_5.html________________________________________________________________________________ ___https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/03/15/on-ukraine-aid-macron-walks-a-tightrope_6621940_23.html _____________________________________________________________________________ __https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/03/14/macron-says-russian-ukraine-victory-would-reduce-europe-s-credibility-to-zero_6619721_7.html________________________________________________________________ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2024/03/14/war-in-ukraine-emmanuel-macron-s-metamorphosis-from-dove-to-hawk_6618730_5.html Political Observer & Political Cynic

Political Cynic comments. Mr. Friedman can’t stop himself from being the servant of The American National Security State, under the amped-up Senile Old Joe! Call this Friedman Political Hysteria! Israel today is in grave danger. With enemies like Hamas, Hezbollah, … Continue reading →

Myra Breckenridge surveys a small pile of dung! What might The Reader/Viewer think of Mr. Shapiros’ title ‘The Oscars Is Filled With Trash Humans’ as just convenient hyperbole, but that not just probably refers to Jews, in an industry once … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader & Political Cynic It takes The Reader five paragraphs before she reaches the beginning of Caldwell’s long soliloquy to Todd. American leadership is failing: That is the argument of an eccentric new book that since January has stood … Continue reading →

Political Realist lances the pustule. Mr. Brooks seems to think/believe that his readership is gullible and or clueless? … In a magnificent 1949 essay on Churchill, Isaiah Berlin noticed that Churchill idealized his fellow Brits with such intensity that he lifted “a large … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader comments. Headline: Germany, France and how not to do deterrence Sub-headline: The EU’s two leading powers are causing confusion and anger among allies as Ukraine’s future hangs by a thread https://www.ft.com/content/54b1d958-e111-4f8a-9983-f9f79d997ec6 The Reader confronts JD Vance ‘often vitriolic Trumpist’ whose ‘criticism … Continue reading →

Newspaper Reader offer a excerpts from Anthony Julius ‘T. S. Eliot , Anti-Semitism and literary form’ as an alternative to Noah Feldman’s ‘Second Front’? March 6, 2024 @NoahRFeldman has opened the ‘Second Front’ in the Gaza Genocide! In defence of The Zionist … Continue reading →