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Amsterdamn: “Amsterdam police were bracing for yet another night of unrest on Tuesday as the Dutch capital grapples with antisemitic violence that started with attacks against visiting Israeli football fans last week.” Meanwhile, closer to home: Demonstrators wave Nazi flags outside local theater performance of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ in Michigan.
+ Huckabeing There: “Last month, the Biden administration gave Israel an unusually stark ultimatum: Improve aid access to hunger-ravaged Gaza in the next 30 days or risk losing some American military support. With the deadline set to expire Tuesday, humanitarian organizations say Israel has failed to follow through, bringing the Palestinian enclave to the brink of mass starvation.” WaPo (Gift Article): The U.S. demanded that Israel surge aid to Gaza. Little has changed. The most misguided voting trend last Tuesday was the pro-Palestinian protest vote against Harris. The ceasefire talks are already being sidelined and any efforts to slow the settler movement in the West Bank will be off under Trump’s pick for Israeli ambassador. Mike Huckabee.
+ The Lay of the Land: “The new team will immediately run into the same dilemma that everyone else has encountered: ‘Land for peace’ sounds nice, but the president of Russia isn’t fighting for land. Putin is fighting not to conquer Pokrovsk but to destroy Ukraine as a nation. He wants to show his own people that Ukraine’s democratic aspirations are hopeless. He wants to prove that a whole host of international laws and norms, including the United Nations Charter and the Geneva conventions, no longer matter. His goal is not to have peace but to build concentration camps, torture civilians, kidnap 20,000 Ukrainian children, and get away with it—which, so far, he has.” Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic (Gift Article): Putin Isn’t Fighting for Land in Ukraine. (One could argue that he just took America without firing a shot.)
+ State of Mind: “You come for my people, you come through me.” Blue state govs gear up to protect their people.
+ Ride or Die: From Bicycling: The Alchemists. “They led a cycling revolution in Afghanistan where women were forbidden to ride. When the Taliban returned to power, their only hope was a harrowing escape to an uncertain future.”
