Justin Amash’s Family in Gaza

Reprinted from Justin Amash's Substack. As some of you know, I have relatives in Gaza. They are my dad’s first cousins. Tragically, several of them were killed in October when an Israeli airstrike destroyed part of the complex at Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church where...

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Another Pointless Assassination in Baghdad

It’s January in an election year, so it must be time for the U.S. to assassinate someone in Baghdad: A U.S. Special Operations drone strike in Baghdad on Thursday killed a senior figure in an Iran-linked militant group that is part of Iraq’s security apparatus,...

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Learning from Old Globes

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Back in 2015, I broke out my old globe and wrote the article below. My globe is roughly 100 years old, when Israel didn’t exist. The relatively tiny area of Palestine (look for Jerusalem) is labeled “Brit...

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