(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Yesterday's young, black Gen Z writer says this: "I implore my generation to . . . [b]e a rebel and start a family. Be a rebel and love America."
More evidence that America is not hated but actually loved by the rest of the world comes from this writer who spent three years walking around the world, meeting ordinary people.
Here's a man who was taught to hate another country-- but eventually trained himself out of it.
from The Free Press
Saudi Arabia has a long Red Sea coastline that they want to put to good economic use. People like to vacation at seaside resorts. So that's why luxury resorts are an important part of the Vision 2030 Project known as Neom.
What if the war in Gaza escalates to the whole Middle East? Potential tourists will stay away altogether if there's a chance those resorts may become high-profile targets.
What if security threats scare shipping lines into restricting delivery of materials and equipment to this hugely expensive building project? Billions of dollars' worth of construction investment can't pay off if construction can't be finished.
The enormous cost and effort behind the project make government officials nervous. Tensions, conflict, and outright war threaten the Vision; some citizens are sympathetic to the Palestinian side while the government tries to make friendly with both the U.S. and Israel.
Saudi Arabia is investing heavily in a stable future and cannot afford current hostilities to engulf the Middle East. Maybe we'll see them try to bring peace to Israel and the Palestinians.
from MSN
Columbia University in New York is another globally prestigious institution. Founded way back in the 1700's around the founding of America, its good reputation may rightly suffer because antisemitism is being revealed.
"Pro-Palestinian," antisemitic protests on American campuses began after the brutal Hamas attack on Israeli civilians last October and Israel's counterattack in Gaza. Three university presidents couldn't condemn genocide before congress.
But the protests at Columbia shouldn't be a complete surprise, according to this author and former Columbia student. One professor called Israel a “key actor” in “every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world.” Professors have "saturated them with an ideological hatred for the Jewish state and university administrators . . have tolerated it for too long. At least some of the student protestors are just acting on what they've been taught.
Antisemitism, left-wing indoctrination, admissions scandals, plagiarism, all are part of the ongoing discovery of wide-spread corruption in our universities.
from MSN
Iran attacked Israel directly for the very first time nine days ago. This unprecedented full-scale military assault included hundreds of bomb-carrying drones as well as more destructive ballistic missiles. Global leaders were quick to condemn it as a possible trigger of regional war.
Israel's air defense system, the Iron Dome, is designed to defend against this type of attack and has historically been very effective. It's a complex combination of strategies. But this time, its effectiveness is being called miraculous.
A physics professor and expert on the defense industry says, "When I look at what happened on Motzai Shabbat, on a scientific level - it simply cannot happen!! Statistically." Almost all (99%) of the bombs were intercepted.
"What happened is that everyone, but everyone - the pilots, the systems operators and the technology operators - acted as one man, at one moment in total unity. If this is not an act of G-d, then I no longer know what a miracle is."
from this X (Twitter) post
