Ukraine clock: the end of the Putin game is La Paz
“Instead of stopping the murder, the special envoy of the United States, Steve Witkoff, negotiation efforts are accelerating the intentional orientation of Moscow or Ukrainian civilians,” warns Jonathan Sweet & Mark Toth in the hill.
Vladimir Putin does not want because “Peace as the West imagines it: Russia has used the” two cessation of limited cessation “so far” to obtain additional advantages on the battlefield. “
To stop Russian assaults, Ukrainians “need weapons, ammunition and intelligence,” more “the ability to prevent ballistic missiles and drones from hitting their cities.”
Ukraine needs “Team Trump to stop enabling the continuous aggression of Russia at the negotiating table.”
Instead, Putin “must be stopped” and the Trump administration “must enable Ukraine now.”
Conservative: The colored coup on parents’ rights
“Colorado is prepared to approve a law that would threaten the rights of custody of parents that ‘Dead Name’ or ‘Mosgender’ to their own children,
According to the law, “referring to the biological genre of your child or the name or pronoun is now considered harmful and abusive, inviting a court to remove your child from your coercive father.”
In summary, the democratic bill “would require parents to adopt a genre, name and pronoun that they believe are harmful to their children.”
Wow: “Democrats not only ignore the rights of parents, but political realities. They will find that this is not a partisan problem. It is a primary problem.”
Critics of culture: why Israelis are happy
Despite a “year and a half of sustained fighting and funerals”, a new report classifies Israel in the 10 main countries for happiness, Cheer Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy on the tablet.
In the midst of “abrasing political divisions,” Israelis “remain culturally united. Appreciable family, community, country and history shapes their faith in the future.”
Optimism was once “synonym in the United States”, but today “despair affects young Americans”; They have “lost pride in their nation and history”, after a “demoralization campaign” on the left.
On the contrary, the Israelis feel part of their history of “repeatedly overcome oppression” and return to their homeland.
“They know why they are willing to die.” “West needs such a good tribalism.” It is the “essence” of Zionism and “of the Easter Seder also”.
Capitol Hill: ‘Ideology of Ignorance’ by Andy Kim
The new Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) has “adopted an ideology of ignorance in foreign affairs,” Thunders comment Seth Mandel.
This month “voted for Bernie Sanders’s partial embargo against Israel,” aiming “to prevent Israel from taking offensive measures against terrorist entities that attack him.”
Hey? At the top of “the strategic feeling of wanting the Israelis to retire from Gaza with Hamas still in power”, “Kim’s belief that one can separate Hamas (and Hezbollah) from Iran is now indefensible.”
Fortunately, “168 New Jersey rabbis of several denominations signed an open letter calling our Kim for failing the Jews” in a first critical vote. “
Human: “Despite the numerous promises that he would support our ally and for his Jewish constituents, in his first vote on a critical issue for the security of Israel,” Kim “voted with the Anti-Israel strip and the most ostlest.
Urban Beat: The New York Rikers Close Nightmare
“The elected officials of the city have long used the Rikers conditions as an argument to build new prisons” in the outer districts, Nicole Gelinas of Thunders City Journal. But now “the defects in this plan have become impossible to ignore.”
The scheme was always “fantastic”, since prisons “will cost almost twice” the projected $ 9 billion and the first jail won open until 2029, “two years after Rikers is supposed to obtain.”
Despite his reservations, Mayor Adams has been “signing contract after contract to build the new municipal prisons.”
Meanwhile, the existing prison complex reported this month of another preventable potentiety in the death of a couple, their fifth of the year.
Rikers “” Management continues to fail and inmates continue to suffer “, but” those conditions in Rikers are not inevitable; They are a choice. “
– Compiled by the Post Editorial Board