But this description belies all the vibrant life that exists within the Strip’s boundaries, Post Opinion editors across Negar Azimi is written. Or at least it existed.
Since October, an Israeli bombing campaign has reduced much of Gaza to rubble. In Negar’s oral history, Palestinians remember Gaza as a place they called home despite all its injustices.
There are also bakeries serving sesame-dusted kaak and seaside stalls selling cold sweets. Old christian church and old islamic mosque. The orange farm owned by the Abshara family has been around (according to the Abshara family) “since Jesus was a Jew.”
Each location has been “bombed and shelled.” [or] It was bulldozed,” Negar wrote. Alone, it’s a haunting elegy, especially when combined with Palestinian artists. Asma GhanemThis is an illustration by.
But as you read on, the crumbling buildings begin to pale. When zookeepers returned, they found nine out of ten animals starved to death. Next, a journalist talks about a bombed university. The university’s president was killed two months later in an Israeli attack. Five days later, a leading journalist was murdered. 20 He was killed in that old Christian church.
But the situation could get even worse. Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to attack Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city and the last place of refuge for Palestinians. Without changing the way Israel has been run, editorial committee However, it would also be a humanitarian disaster.
That doesn’t have to happen. The committee urges President Biden to publicly, privately, and effectively move towards a hostage deal that has the potential to forge a long-term peace that could halt fighting and even establish a Palestinian state. Whatever the case may be, I urge you to keep up the pressure.
And perhaps one day there will be more kaaak and oranges and a lot less sadness.
Chaser: max boot He reveals where humanitarian aid is actually successful. He traveled with United Nations relief workers caring for Ukrainian refugees.
Despite everything the culture has told her, and despite everything her country I told her that marriage was not the answer. leeds lentz.
Lentz, a writer for Substack and author of This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life, shares how marriage made her and many women like her miserable. This is explained in an essay based on that book.
You see, the United States gives lavish benefits to fiancés and makes it much harder to end a marriage than it is to start one. Marriage is promoted as a panacea for all social problems. But it’s all wrong.
“Perhaps instead of discouraging divorce or pressuring people to marry for economic security, we should create a more just society,” Lentz wrote. .
That way, she imagined, there would be far fewer unhappy male-female alliances characterized by study after study: exhaustion, abuse, an unfair division of labor, and wives who are far more unhappy than their husbands. There is. She is forced to conclude that heterosexual marriage simply isn’t for me, so she plans to encourage her boyfriend to avoid it as well.
Lentz writes that so many people treat marriage as sacred, but it only works when you’re married. Really It works. She wants a rethink, and it starts with women raising the standards for men.
And, “If you push the bar too high and it breaks, it’s okay,” Lenz advises. “There is power in giving up.”
Chaser: Do you have questions or comments about modern relationships? With Lenz Shadi Hamid (who wrote a recent article on polyamory) will discuss this topic with readers in real time on Thursdays at noon ET.
Last year’s first article about Commander, the Biden family’s highly biting dog, was treated mostly as a funny mountain out of a molehill.
However, after reviewing recently released Secret Service documents, Jill AbramsonThe former editor-in-chief of the New York Times (who was also an avid dog trainer) wrote that these episodes constituted “a harrowing story of pet ownership at height going dangerously out of control.” ing.
Abramson’s, well, scathing commentary includes a gory, but synopsis of the incident, perfect if you need to get your bearings. One involved White House tours being suspended while blood was wiped from the floor.
She doesn’t envy the Bidens’ excruciating dilemma of giving up their pets, but concludes that “at some point, the problem is with the owners, not the animals.”
Chaser: Alexandra Petri’s A quiz that asks readers to decide whether a historical document is real or fake includes a wonderful (imaginary) excerpt from the tapes of Nixon catching Checkers, his cocker spaniels, in their misdeeds.
- heather long It explains how we’ve been looking at inflation the wrong way and why we feel so confused about the economy as a result.
- Leon Krause Mexico is evaluating whether a new president can overcome authoritarian tendencies under the leadership of an authoritarian former president.
- Organized labor is ironically no longer well-organized, writes former National Labor Relations Board chairman William Gould. He offers a plan for unions to win and grow.
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