At least someone can see a possible positive side to a Trump victory: Hopes for Peace – On Why a Trump Presidency might turn around the situation in the region:During the years 2016-2020 I struggled to explain to American audiences that from the very narrow and selfish perspective of an Israeli, and putting aside everything…

Daniel Finkelstein today in the Times: At a campaign stop in Iowa in 2016, Trump remarked: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Correctly, he added: “It’s, like, incredible.” When he said it, it seemed ridiculous. Even making the remark seemed politically incompetent.…

One hundred years ago, a Republican victory for Calvin Coolidge. "November 4, 1924. "Election night crowd at Washington Star." [Photo: Shorpy/National Photo Company]

As Jo Bartosch reminds us, Joe Biden has been the first trans-activist president: The trans issue has grabbed the US electorate by the genitals. In the pre-election period, Republicans have reportedly spent more than $65million on television ads highlighting the madness of the Democratic Party’s push for ‘trans inclusion’. And who can blame them? Sane…

Back to MEMRI TV, for a breath of fresh air from Lebanese filmmaker Youssef El-Khoury: Interviewer: "As a Lebanese, did you not feel proud [in 2006] to see the Lebanese resistance facing the Israeli army? Didn't you feel proud when you saw Hassan Nasrallah saying 'watch [the Israeli ship] burn,' and at that moment it…

It's always difficult to gauge this kind of aggressive rhetoric from Kim Jong-un: it is, after all, what he does, issuing threats against his enemies and stressing the need for constant vigilance and war preparation. It's how he stays in power. On the other hand it's all getting more than a little concerning, given the…

The disquiet felt by China over the sending of North Korean troops to Ukraine and the increased cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang is shown here in a couple of recent MEMRI TV clips from Chinese media commentators. Chinese Media Personality Qiu Zhenhai: When news broke that North Korea was sending its elite soldiers to fight…

Paper from Adam Rutherford (geneticist, science populariser, head of Humanists UK) et al., arguing that sex testing in sport is not nice because of hurt feelings. Many British 'humanists' (often affiliated with @Humanists_UK) have decided that the hurt feelings of delusional male cheats is more important than defending women's safety, dignity and the right to…

Here's the translation to this billboard in #Tehran:"Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth, and that is only the beginning."But I'm sure they only mean it in a good, peaceful way 🤦‍♀️ https://t.co/HjoG8gphYx pic.twitter.com/nc0Yvxg7e7 — Yana Kotlyar-Gal 🇮🇱 (@KotlyarGal) November 5, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

This is Aliza Shagrir. Forty-four years ago, she was murdered in a terror attack in Paris. The man convicted of planning the attack that killed Aliza and three others, Hassan Diab, escaped to Canada. He was just appointed as a professor at .@Carleton_U. pic.twitter.com/pIB6TUxzYf — liel leibovitz (@liel) November 4, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The Jerusalem Post:…