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Palestinians receive bags of flour at an UNRWA distribution center, Nov. 23, 2023. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Swiss parliament moves to stop funding UNRWA

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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...
Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan speaks during the U.N. General Assembly debate in New York on the Israeli-Hamas war, Dec. 12, 2023. Source: X.

UNGA passes resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire

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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...
One of 197 humanitarian aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip on Dec. 12, 2023. Source: X

Israel: Hamas, UN to blame if aid doesn’t reach civilians

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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...
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt reviews his troops in Casablanca from a jeep on Jan. 14, 1943. The tall walking figure at his side is Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark. Credit: National Museum of the U.S. Navy via Wikimedia Commons.

The lessons of ‘Casablanca’

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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...
Sally Kornbluth, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Source: YouTube/MIT.

Something very wrong from the top on down

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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...