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The Case for a New Arab Peace Initiative - Foreign Affairs Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, American officials have insisted that the eventual creation of a Palestinian state that would exist side by side with Israel is the only way to end the conflict in the Middle East. “The only real solution to the situation is a two-state solution,” declared President Joe Biden during his March 2024 State of the Union address. In May, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said that “a two-state solution is the only way to ensure a strong, secure, Jewish, democratic state of Israel, as well as a future of dignity, security, and prosperity for the Palestinian people.” And throughout her presidential campaign this year, including after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July, Vice President Kamala Harris has promoted a two-state solution, describing it as the “only path” forward.
But to many people—especially Palestinians—these calls feel divorced from reality. After suffering years of death and destruction and decades of repression, most Palestinians do not believe that a two-state solution is viable or forthcoming. In fact, polls have suggested that a majority of Palestinians now support armed resistance as the way to end the conflict. It is easy to see why, even without a year of war, they might be disillusioned. The United States has spent decades peddling a two-state solution while supplying Israel with arms, allowing it to expand settlements in the occupied territories, and permitting it to seize more Palestinian land and natural resources. Washington has backed Israel internationally almost no matter what the country does. It has, in other words, consistently ignored the rights of the Palestinian people.
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WorkCNN apologises for pager comment by conservative panellist to Mehdi HasanIn a later post on X, however, Girdusky appeared to double down on a more antagonistic approach. “You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded media,” he said. “Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke. I’m glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.” WorkKamala Harris holds lead over Donald Trump in new national pollPreliminary data from the Cooperative Election Study (CES) was released on Monday and shows Harris leading Trump by 4 percentage points among 48,732 likely voters, with 51 percent of those surveyed backing the vice president and 47 percent backing the former president.
WorkWorkHow Daring to Be Different Made Nerds Gummy Clusters a Top Selling Candy - Inc In a world where data is king and everything can be measured by clicks and consumer responses, most makers of goods, clothes, cosmetics, and food items undertake extensive research before doing new product launches. Others, by contrast, ignore discouraging feedback during early trials and just go with their gut feeling. It was that kind of determination and confidence that led Chicago-based candy producer Ferrara to take a hopeful flyer with Nerds Gummy Clustersthe what the heck? U.S. confectionary hit that has already generated over $500 million in sales so far this year.
Work5 Rules for Companies Navigating Geopolitical Volatility - Harvard Business Review Geopolitics is an uncertain business. The world order to which most business leaders were once accustomed is now facing its greatest challenge since the Cold War, if not World War II. Wars in Europe and the Middle East and rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific have made the world more turbulent and less predictable. There are few offramps to what increasingly looks like a geopolitical hard landing that could threaten global security and growth. Work
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WorkItalys Turin is a chocolate lovers dream - WSJ Tucked away in the far northwest of Italy is a city where chocolate reigns.The residents of Turin have been creatingand consumingchocolate since the 16thcentury,culminating in a vibrant chocolate scene that now encompasses gourmet chocolatiers, pastry shops, cafes, gelato makers and experimental chefs. Work
WorkIsrael urged by Yellen to help Palestinian economy function - WSJ Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the West Banks economy could collapse if Israel doesnt preserve its banking relationship with Palestinian financial institutions in the territory it occupies, highlighting another potential source of instability as Israel also fights foes in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. WorkWhat if Microsoft let OpenAI go free? - The Economist Call it a modern-day version of a spectacular Renaissance patronage. Since 2019 Microsoft has provided more than $13bn in cash and computing capacity to OpenAI, a once-penniless startup that is now at the forefront of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and, as of its most recent fundraising round, worth $157bn. In exchange, Microsoft has gained the exclusive right to run OpenAIs models on Azure, its cloud-computing business.
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WorkThe Trump Show Comes to Madison Square Garden - The New Yorker On the corner of Eighth Avenue and Thirty-third Street, Patriot Drummer Mike and Magashred Steve were finishing a two-man rendition of Were Not Gonna Take It, by Twisted Sister. Mike played a snare drum and wore a tricorne hat; Steve played an electric guitar and wore a red Make America Great Again hat, signed by the man himself. They took a break and consulted a laminated set list: Stayin Alive, Rawhide, Folsom Prison Blues rewritten as J6 Prison Blues, and a few Civil War anthems. They couldnt remember which were Union songs and which were Confederate songs, but they were pretty sure that their list included some of each. Gotta cover the bases, I guess, Mike said. WorkHow would the US handle a nuclear Iran? - WSJ Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, has had a bad week. Elon Musks X suspended his new Hebrew-language account, and the Israel Defense Forces unleashed a devastating series of air raids against his countrys military infrastructure. Given the disparity between Irans capabilities and Israels, the beleaguered ayatollah doesnt have many good options for a counterstrike. WorkThe battle brewing over how much red meat you eat - WSJ Scientists advising the U.S. government on its next round of dietary guidelines have drafted recommendations that would tell Americans to limit how much red meat they eat. Its part of an effort to nudge us to eat more plant foods, including beans, peas and lentils. WorkWorkPuerto Ricans in Philadelphia Are Angered by Bigoted Remarks at Trump RallyAnother Puerto Rican Trump supporter said the remarks against his home island did not upset him because they were the words of a comedian and not the former president. The supporter, Max Izaguirre, 78, of North Philadelphia, added that he agreed with Mr. Trump’s view that immigration had made the United States “like a garbage can for the world.” WorkHow Russia, China and Iran Are Interfering in the Presidential ElectionBut the broad goal of these efforts has not changed: to sow discord and chaos in hopes of discrediting American democracy in the eyes of the world. The campaigns, though, have evolved, adapting to a changing media landscape and the proliferation of new tools that make it easy to fool credulous audiences. WorkOpinion | Trump Betrayed America.Republicans Must Put Country Above Party.The powers of the presidency are vast and its responsibilities commensurately immense. It is for those reasons that a president has no higher obligations than to America’s democracy, Constitution and rule of law, the foundational cornerstones of our republic. Through his words and deeds, Donald Trump has over and again demonstrated his palpable contempt for those cornerstones of America’s grand experiment in democratic self-government. He has proved himself to be an anti-democratic, anti-Constitution candidate for the presidency of the United States. WorkOpinion | The BRICS Summit Was a Glimpse of the World to ComeSurrounded by the leaders of some three dozen nations, Putin looked like the cat who ate the canary — a man who reportedly has the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, on something close to speed dial and has reportedly had private phone calls with the past and possibly future president of the United States, Donald Trump. The secretary general of the United Nations attended as well, raising eyebrows as he made his first visit to Russia in more than two years. In a news conference at the end of the summit, Putin indulged in some digs at his Western tormentors. WorkWorkTop 10 US fears include corrupt government, terrorism, world warSuch misperceptions can translate into real-world effects, such as by convincing officials to prioritize neutralizing serial killers rather than domestic abusers, who are much more common. “We are so focused on stranger danger that it leads us to spend resources in the wrong way,” Bader said in a statement. WorkKamala Harris to urge voters to 'turn the page' on era of TrumpIn an abbreviated 100-day campaign that Harris inherited from Biden after he stepped aside in July, the Democratic nominee has unified her party, raised more than a billion dollars, blanketed the airwaves and blitzed the battleground states. And yet the race remains a dead heat nationally and in the seven swing states that will determine who serves as the 47th president of the United States. WorkWorkEmidat is building a tool to clean up construction by automating environmental reporting | TechCrunchNatasha is a senior reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based in Europe. She joined TC after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic), where she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms & networking, and IT skills issues. She has also freelanced for organisations including The Guardian and the BBC. Natasha holds a First Class degree in English from Cambridge University, and an MA in journalism from Goldsmiths College, University of London. WorkStephen Bannon Is Released From PrisonMr. Bannon’s reach gives him few peers in right-wing media — and fewer still who understand how to tap into and inflame the fears and suspicions of Trump supporters. Before Mr. Bannon’s imprisonment, the Podcharts ranking service routinely listed his daily podcast “War Room” among the country’s top 10 political podcasts. WorkWhat Harris's Courtroom Transcripts Reveal About Her Closing ArgumentsSharmin Bock, an attorney who worked closely with Ms. Harris in Alameda County, recalled sitting on the courthouse steps with Ms. Harris in the 1990s to discuss trial strategies. Ms. Bock says she sometimes sees glimmers of those days as she watches Ms. Harris on the campaign trail. “I see Kamala talking to her jury,” she said. WorkFlorida Used to Be a Swing State. Now It Leans Republican.The reasons are in some cases structural and longstanding: demographics, partisan gerrymandering and legislative term limits. But others are of Democrats’ own making: an unwillingness to invest enough in the nuts and bolts of winning elections; fund-raising divisions; and flawed assumptions about the growing Hispanic vote, according to an examination of voter registration numbers, campaign spending and more than two dozen interviews with political operatives from both parties. WorkInside the Colorful and Cultish World of Nerds Gummy ClustersFor six months, a team of candy scientists and developers at the company’s headquarters in Chicago met almost every day on their quest to create a gummy core that could hold just enough mini Nerds to pack a perfect crunch. A previous Nerds product had been made in hopes of solving that issue — Nerds Rope, a long, gummy rope with Nerds stuck to it — but some had found it messy or difficult to eat. WorkHow Trump's Business Could Create New Conflicts If He Is Re-ElectedEven if Mr. Trump eventually agrees to forgo future foreign business — the centerpiece of that earlier plan — the recent deals will most likely be grandfathered in, because his company moved swiftly to announce them well ahead of any potential new constraints, one of the people said. WorkPuerto Rico's G.O.P. Chairman Demands Apology From Trump for Comic's RemarksBy and large, the former president is not known for his contrition. In 2018, when Mr. Trump was facing criticism over an aide’s joke that Senator John McCain was irrelevant because he would soon die, a Republican strategist, Kevin Madden, said, “The president has always throughout his career had a stance of ‘never apologize, never back down.’” WorkWorkTrump's Use of Profanity Was Already Growing Before the MSG RallyHe often relates that Franklin Graham, the evangelical leader and son of the Rev. Billy Graham, has chided the former president about his language. “I wrote him back,” Mr. Trump said at a rally this month where he discussed the golfer Arnold Palmer’s penis size and invited the crowd to shout out a four-letter word to describe Ms. Harris. “I said, I’m going to try to do that, but actually, the stories won’t be as good. Because you can’t put the same emphasis on it. So tonight, I broke my rule.” WorkHarris Dives Into a Frenetic Final Week With a Swing Through MichiganMr. Walz addressed gun violence, a topic that polls show resonates deeply with young voters who have grown up participating in active-shooter drills in their schools. He first said that freedom includes being “free to send your kids to school without them being shot dead in the halls,” then took a rhetorical jab at Mr. Trump. WorkSecret Files in Election Case Show How Judges Limited Trump's PrivilegeThe effort, which ended in the spring of the following year, was largely intended to obtain firsthand accounts from key figures who had used claims of executive privilege and other legal protections to avoid testifying to investigators on the House committee that examined the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and the events leading up to it. WorkWorkWorkWorkJP Morgan sues customers over viral cheque fraudThe “infinite money glitch”, as it became known on TikTok, allowed the bank's customers to write a large cheque to themselves, deposit it and then withdraw the funds before the cheque bounced. WorkWorkElon Musk Bought a Texas Compound for His 11 Kids and Their MothersA proponent of in vitro fertilization, Mr. Musk believes strongly in increasing the world’s population. He has even offered his own sperm to friends and acquaintances, including the former independent vice-presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan, according to two people familiar with his offer. Ms. Shanahan turned him down. WorkMcDonald's Focus on Value Bolsters U.S. SalesStill, McDonald’s earnings are a closely watched barometer for consumer spending, especially among lower-income consumers, who have been tightening their belts over the past year. McDonald’s introduced the $5 meal deal promotion this summer and then extended it through the end of the year in a majority of its markets. WorkWorkNo, noncitizens are not voting in droves.Stuart A. Thompson writes about how false and misleading information spreads online and how it affects people around the world. He focuses on misinformation, disinformation and other misleading content. More about Stuart A. Thompson WorkWhat Ants and Orcas Can Teach Us About DeathOf course, projecting our own human experiences onto other species can be a tricky business, and scientists often warn about the mistakes we can make when we engage in this sort of anthropomorphism. But we can also be misled by our tendency to assume that many cognitive and emotional traits are unique to humans, Dr. Monsó said. And in her new book, “Playing Possum,” she argues that a variety of animal species have at least a rudimentary concept of death. WorkWork TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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