Daily Archives: December 13, 2023
Swiss parliament moves to stop funding UNRWA
The Swiss National Council voted on Tuesday to cut funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) amid mounting international concerns over the group’s activities in Gaza.
The decision by the lower house of...
UNGA passes resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.
Out of the 193 members of the world body, 153 voted in favor of the...
Israel: Hamas, UN to blame if aid doesn’t reach civilians
After allowing 197 humanitarian aid trucks into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Israel blamed the terror group Hamas and the United Nations for not getting supplies to those in need.
“Humanitarian aid trucks wait more...
The lessons of ‘Casablanca’
One of my all-time favorite films is “Casablanca” starring Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, an American nightclub owner—and isolationist— in Morocco as the Nazis are goose stepping across Europe and beyond.
“I’m not fighting for...
Something very wrong from the top on down
There is a deep, distressing and rapidly metastasizing rot within American society. And it was profoundly on display last week at the hearing on the House Committee on Education & the Workforce.
Harvard president Claudine...