Analysis
Thursday, August 4th 2022 / Thursday, August 4th 2022
Shane Harris Washington Post, Aug. 2, 2022 Ayman al-Zawahiri, the 71-year-old leader of al-Qaeda, stepped onto the third-floor balcony of his house in an exclusive neighborhood of Kabul around 6:15 a.m. Sunday. He usually appeared in the morning, shortly after daybreak. Sometimes he read. He was always alone. And the CIA was watching. After […]
Colin P. Clarke NPR, Aug. 2, 2022 After hunting for him for 21 years, U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri over the weekend with a drone strike targeting him at a safe house in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zawahiri had led al-Qaida since May 2011, when U.S. special operations forces killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. While […]
Jared Malsin and Nancy A. Youssef WSJ, Aug. 1, 2022 Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, a founding member of the jihadist movement and a key strategist behind a decadeslong campaign of terror and the deadliest strike on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001, died in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul on July 31, the […]
Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, Aug. 2, 2022 The US finally found and killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda. He was found on Sunday in the Afghan capital of Kabul, where he was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried out by the CIA, the BBC reported. “Since the United States delivered justice to [Osama] bin […]
Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 / Tuesday, August 2nd 2022
Melanie Phillips Algemeiner, July 29, 2022 “The stunt reveals a shallowness by these broadcasters not just towards Israel’s interests in normalizing with Saudi Arabia but also towards any sense of the sacred.” We are accustomed to the concept of wars being waged in the name of religion. There’s less acknowledgment of the war being […]
Harold Rhode Dr. Rich Swier, July 25, 2022 “Tamari clearly had fun sneaking into Mecca. From a Muslim perspective, he and by extension all of Israel have undermined the Saudi regime.” The Saudis authorized a group of Israeli reporters to come to Saudi Arabia to cover President Joe Biden’s visit last week. This was clearly another […]
Jonathan Tobin JNS, July 21, 2022 “Israel has no plans or intentions to interfere with, let alone destroy or desecrate, the mosques that exist on the Temple Mount. That said, any prohibition on Jews on the sacred plateau is an insult to Judaism, not respect for Islam.” It turns out that there are some stunts […]
Maureen Dowd NY Times, Mar. 9, 2010 “Couldn’t Mecca, I asked the royals, be opened to non-Muslims during the off-season? The phrase off-season, as it turns out, is not conducive to an interfaith dialogue.” I was tempted to turn my abaya into a black masquerade cloak and sneak into Mecca, just hop over the […]
Monday, August 1st 2022 / Friday, December 1st 2023
Walter Russell Mead WSJ, July 11, 2022 “What possible justification is there for including Italy and Canada in the exclusive G-7?” Five months into the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s army continues to flounder. Kyiv’s defenders are making up for their smaller numbers and artillery shortages with better commanders, smarter tactics, higher morale and, increasingly, […]
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Monday, August 1st 2022 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Joel Kotkin UnHerd, July 15, 2022 “Upwards of 40% of recent college graduates have jobs that don’t require a degree at all. In 2018, half of all college grads made under $30,000 annually, and another recent study suggests that most underemployed graduates remain that way permanently.” With inflation soaring, trust in governments plummeting, and the […]
Jesse Singal Spectator World, July 24, 2022 “… from 2009 to 2012, Facebook and Twitter passed out roughly 1 billion dart guns globally.” The youth aren’t doing well — not in America, at least. Even before Covid, experts were ringing the alarm bells about a decade-or-so-long trend of American teens and tweens experiencing a steady uptick […]
George F. Will Washington Post, July 8, 2022 “A teacher would not be a “sage on the stage” but a “guide on the side,” with students “taking ownership” of their education.” Time was, conscientious parents fretted about “summer learning loss.” Now, when much of what schools do subtracts from understanding, summer could at least […]
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