There are thousands of examples... but today (Monday), watching National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan -- one of the worst "Russia collusion" hoaxers -- address the White House press corps, there are a few particularly poignant ones. There are lots of questions about Russia, which would seem a good time to ask Sullivan about his credibility on the topic, given his "collusion" past, but of course no one asks about that. Yamiche Alcindor of PBS then asks what Biden will do in Europe to convince leaders that Trump was an "anomaly." Another journalist follows up, asking what Biden will do to convince allies that we are back to "normal." The journalist makes the (valid) point that U.S. foreign policy is swinging too wildly from one administration to the next, but he fails to note that the radicalism began with Obama, and does not bother to consider that Trump's policies were the necessary correction. After all, if stability is the #1 priority, why shouldn't Biden be expected to carry out Trump's policies?
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- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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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 ...
