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A review of a book on Palestine before Zionism, when Muslims and Jews (and some Christians) lived as generally peaceful neighbors.

Walter Cronkite (yes I remember him and I have a friend who sat beside him at rocket launches) is rolling over in his grave.

“In a paper published on Monday by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), a think tank based at Tel Aviv University, Tamir Hayman set out 10 principles he said could be inferred from the policy now being implemented.”

Pertinent information about Jewish thought.

Solar plus batteries might save us. There’s one big, fat, dumb obstacle who Needs To Be Removed.

Thank goodness for honest judges. But what will SCOTUS do?

Hallelujah, people Are watching!

An AI just wants to have fun.

I had not thought of this but this guy should know Trump far better than I do.

There’s work to do, some of it on Middle Eastern policy, some of it uncomfortable.

What’s raised by stupidity and buoyed by stupidity will not be brought down easily by stupidity Trump's diesel price relief efforts grow costlier as election nears.

It’s global heating.

Beware titanium implants.

If you’re in school and get rapped don’t expect any help or concern from the Trump regime.

Will desperation drive Trump to again break his word, and attack Iran before the election? Netanyahu is desperate; what will he do?

Doesn’t the Fed have the power to force a manufacturer to make a thing that’s necessary for national security?

It had been kept at bay in Central America with US help, the wisest of investments, then along came Trump. New World screwworm cases confirmed in wildlife in Texas, beef cow in New Mexico

Lawmakers say US briefing showed Russia targeting Democrats with misinformation --democrats-with-misinformation

Trapped in a job even he may realize he cannot do, but his pride won’t let him do the right thing for everyone.

The Trump regime keeps advancing the frontier of graft. A Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal.

The Trump regime is making life worse for us and our children, and possibly killing some of our grandchildren, while Republicans in Congress sit by and help him.

Trump’s desperate to get fuel prices down before the election but Iran’s leaders hate him, unlike other foreign leaders who also hate America and love Trump’s weakening us, because unlike previous presidents Trump fell for Israeli pleas to attack Iran.

Omitting known, pertinent facts brings your publication into question.

Cops kill a toddler over possible theft of a package of diapers.

Such an untrustworthy administration!

Actually Republican policies, since Republicans have the power to stop many of them and they don’t.

These state supreme court races could decide abortion access and trans rights So If You Are A Woman or love a woman, Vote Blue all down your ballot.

The question,I think, is not whether the world he describes is preferable or even tolerable, but can that or a worse world be prevented.

I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down.

FYI

Republicans doing a horrible job on the economy US annual budget gap hits nearly $2 trillion, largest in 5 years

North Carolinians’ futures are best served by voting No on the amendments.

Good for Democratic judges!

Are we (about to be) sharing the world with aliens of our own construction?

A movie about a tv weatherman and the threats they face. Should be good.

We were short of defense missiles, then came Israel’s Trump’s attack on Iran where he fired a general who warned of shortages and proceeded to use up much of what we did have. It will take years to catch us up.

Gravy drips down.

You have deer crossings, we have pumpkin crossings.

Trump won’t inconvenience his bff Putin.

He was a fire and brimstone preacher but he decided to do some good.

The Epstein investigation is brought back to life.

Courts are saying that this Republican regime can continue to deploy unidentified masked thugs around America.

“Musk is now responding, and indicating the White House ordered the restriction. “Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government. Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS (President of The United States),” he wrote in a tweet.”

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