Joe Biden Says the Right Things about Iran. But Can He Be Believed?
Never-ending negotiations belie tough talk.
July 19, 2022
See no evil.
In May of last year, the UN Human Rights Council established a commission of inquiry dedicated to investigating “alleged violations” of international humanitarian law and human-rights law “leading up to and since April 12, 2021” in Israel and what it terms “the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” The commission recently released the first of its reports, which, as could be expected, finds extensive but dubious Israeli wrongdoing, while ignoring Hamas’s war crimes and abuses of its own people. Joe Truzman provides a window into how this happens:
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Israeli entrepreneurs can afford to be pickier about their partners.
See no evil.
Is Jewish education more like prayer or more like garden-variety private-school education?
The same man opened the first cacao-processing factory and the first synagogue on Martinique.