The White House was at pains to defend President Joe Biden's decision not to visit East Palestine, Ohio, three weeks after the derailment disaster. President Donald Trump visited on Wednesday, shaming Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg into visiting and shaming President Biden himself into ... issuing a tweet.
Biden has put himself into a bind, because he will be attacked for staying away, but will also look like a copycat if he ultimately goes.
But why isn't every other Republican candidate there? I get that there are voters to reach in New Hampshire, and Sunday shows to do on TV, but why not visit the abandoned people of eastern Ohio?
This is why Trump is the frontrunner for the nomination in 2024. Only he seems to have to instinct to do what is right -- even if he often says what is wrong. His ambitious rivals had better learn -- and soon.
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
