Eye on the Mideast: Cost of Israel-UAE Friendship
“What is an advanced weapon system between new friends?” quips Eli Lake of Bloomberg Opinion. However, Israel, which has long relied on America’s policy of not selling the same weapons systems to Arab countries, is not happy with the US openness to selling the United Arab Emirates’ F-35 fighter jet. While the two peoples normalize relations, the Jewish state knew “friends of today can be opponents of the morning” – and that “fleeting” countries can demand the jet “as a price for normalization”. Providing “the UAE with modern fighter jets” hedges against “the very real possibility of Chinese and Russian arms sales to Iran.” Yet the price of “converting the UAE from enemy to friend” may be “the erosion of the military advantage” Israel’s “most important friend” – the United States – has “delivered for almost 50 years”.
Education beat: The Anti-Pod People
Some school districts are “not amused” that families use “pandemic pods” to “provide some sort of instruction to their children,” scoff Lindsey M. Burke and Jason Bedrick at National Review. The Fairfax County, Va., District, for one, claimed pods will “widen the gap in access to education and equality” – “an implicit admission” that their online-only learning “is inferior to the education students could receive in pods . ”Of course, school boards are simply trying to protect the status quo of” resident and government control “, which” puts podding in doubt. “If they were really ‘interested’ in the ‘public goodness’ of public education, they ‘would’ do anything. do in their power to give children continuity to children ‘- including embracing pods.
Foreign Office: Real Russian Interference
“The leaders of the coup that ousted Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita spent most of the year in training in Russia, before returning to send the democratically elected leader to gunpoint,” reports Philip Obaji Jr. on The Daily Beast. Sources say Russian military-trained rebel leaders Malick Diaw and Sadio Camara have, and although it is not yet certain “Diaw and Camara sought military assistance or cover” from the Kremlin, “military officials do not determine Russia’s direct involvement,” especially to it has “a reputation for swooping in African countries and hopes to reform its policies for material gain.” The Russians, however, may need to be careful: the coup could result in “national disharmony and political uncertainty” – allowing jihadist groups to “expand their reach.”
Campaign watch: Bidding offers black only fear
“Joe Biden has introduced himself” to black Americans as “a savior figure for whom they have a moral duty to vote” – that is, “a total fraud,” Rudy Giuliani joked on The Washington Times. In his speech for announcement, Biden criticized righteous white supremacists, but “failed” to mention “much less” threats to blacks and other Americans. ” Indeed, “violent crime in the big cities of America” destroys “many more black lives” than “white supremacist boards”, yet “Biden has chosen to attack the police, exploiting the false accusation of ‘systemic racist’ enforcement. ” His party has ignored and exploited African Americans for decades, while black unemployment and poverty under President Trump “set a record low” and “black wages” a record high. In summary, Biden offers black voters only more “fear and dependence.”
Cultural critic: What’s in a name?
The “Reclaim Her Name” project, 25 novels “whose female authors were originally published under male pseudonyms” reissued with the authors’ “real” names, is “well-intentioned” but “misses the point of the pseudonym” writer, “states Catherine Taylor at The Times Literary Supplement. Did “Middlemarch” writer George Eliot “really need a refund” like Mary Ann Evans? The project “makes it clear that Eliot was ‘forced to use a male pen name’, as if she were unable to make her own decisions.” Same with Amantine Aurore Dupin: “‘George Sand’ was as much a part of her image as the men’s clothes she wore and the tobacco she openly smoked.” Indeed, the “rather superficial” and “approach of one big-fits-all” project looks at the complexities of publishing history, in which pseudonyms are not always about meeting patriarchal “standards.
– compiled by Karl Salzmann and Kelly Jane Torrance
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