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** Evidence of ethnic cleansing growing in West Bank and Gaza ([link removed])
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By Paul R. Pillar on Dec 08, 2023 12:05 am
Featured Image Even if one were to take at face value Israel’s declarations that its assault on the Gaza Strip and its two million residents is all about “destroying Hamas,” the Israeli operation is too misguided for the United States or any other power to support or condone it.
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** Dems call for more oversight of US weapons in Gaza ([link removed])
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By Connor Echols on Dec 07, 2023 09:39 am
Featured Image The Biden administration must take steps to increase the oversight of U.S. weapons given to Israel in order to reduce civilian harm in Gaza, argued a group of powerful Democratic senators in a new open letter to President Joe Biden.
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** GOP Debate: Ukraine inching toward the memory hole ([link removed])
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By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Dec 07, 2023 07:09 am
Featured Image It's as if the Ukraine War has all but ended — at least for American politics.
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** With China, the Pope isn't just virtue signaling ([link removed])
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By Alejandro Reyes on Dec 07, 2023 12:05 am
Featured Image The United States has cast a values veil over its multifaceted match of punishments and restrictions with China. When he dismisses Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a “dictator ([link removed]) ,” the Cold War veteran is making a pointed value judgement that puts a moral spin on the relationship.
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** Hyped China fears are driving a high-tech arms race ([link removed])
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By William Hartung on Dec 06, 2023 12:05 am
Featured Image Discussions of Pentagon spending in Washington routinely ignore the fact that at $886 ([link removed]) billion for next year, the military budget is already at one of the highest levels since World War II. With better management and a more realistic strategy, that sum would be far more than is needed to provide an effective defense of the United States and its allies.
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** What has happened to America? ([link removed])
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By Jack F. Matlock Jr. on Dec 06, 2023 12:05 am
Featured Image Rummaging through my accumulated papers, I just came across the English translation of a speech I delivered in Czechoslovakia on July 4, 1982, when I was American ambassador in Prague. At that time Czechoslovakia was ruled by a Communist regime imposed by the Soviet Union.
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