On Jan. 21, Hamas took to Instagram, releasing a bilingual document in English and Arabic listing its five reasons for launching its onslaught against Israel during the wee hours of Oct. 7: Its need to combat Israel’s alleged plan to erase the Palestinian cause, Its responsibility to resist the “Judaization” of the land, Its undertaking […]
Leave your ideal system aside; here in the real world, tax codes are used for all sorts of purposes. States that want to make a Hollywood splash pass tax credits to lure film production companies. Progressives like to pass tax provisions that will reward environmentally conscious companies. Various R&D tax credits are justified, according to […]
Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States, by Patrick J. Charles, Columbia University Press, 488 pages, $35 The National Rifle Association (NRA) “favored tighter gun laws” in the 1920s and ’30s, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote in 2018. But since the 1970s, Kristof complained, the NRA “has been hijacked by extremist leaders” whose […]
Senior Senate Republicans are furious that Donald Trump may have killed an emerging bipartisan deal over the southern border, depriving them of a key legislative achievement on a pressing national priority and offering a preview of what’s to come with Trump as their likely presidential nominee. In recent weeks, Trump has been lobbying Republicans both […]
In response to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico‘s proposal for a “territorial compromise” with Russia, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has stressed that this is out of the question. Source: comments by Oleh Nikolenko, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, on the latest remarks by the Slovak prime minister Quote: “There can be no compromise on territorial integrity. […]
Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he “will not compromise on full Israeli control” over Gaza and that “this is contrary to a Palestinian state”. The Israeli prime minister rejected US president Joe Biden’s suggestion that creative solutions could bridge wide gaps between the leaders’ views on Palestinian statehood. In a sign of the pressures Mr […]
Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he “will not compromise on full Israeli control” over Gaza and that “this is contrary to a Palestinian state”. The Israeli prime minister rejected US President Joe Biden’s suggestion that creative solutions could bridge wide gaps between the leaders’ views on Palestinian statehood. In a sign of the pressures Mr […]
General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has said that the 36-month service limit is a compromise with the government, provided there is no escalation at the contact line and that there are people to replace those on the front line. Source: Valerii Zaluzhnyi at a briefing on 26 December, quoted […]
Journalists have said following the coalition’s new agreement on the budget for 2024, the German Bundeswehr will have to buy weapons to replace the ones supplied to Ukraine from a special army development fund, and not from a separate pool, as was initially planned. Source: Spiegel with reference to its sources, as reported by European […]