In July, a UNICEF-led team's report not only found "no widespread acute malnutrition" in Gaza, notes The Free Press' Olivia Reingold. Christopher Sadowski See more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on Google Mideast beat: Incredible Shrinking Gaza Famine In July, a UNICEF-led team’s report not only found “no widespread acute malnutrition” in Gaza, notes The Free Press’ Olivia Reingold, it also showed Gaza “has one of the lowest rates of acute child malnutrition in the region.” Indeed, the strip’s current health challenge is “obesity and weight excess, which affect a combined 4 percent of children under the age of 5.” Only a year ago, the UN’s hunger-monitoring system warned “more than half a million Palestinians were ‘facing catastrophic conditions characterized by starvation, destitution, and death.’” Humanitarian groups just can’t seem to explain the reversal, but a “major organization is still fundraising” on the starvation claim, and news of the UN report “has been hard to find in the mainstream press.”
“It’s a tough time to be a data center,” observes Robby Soave at The Hill. A “vital part” of the tech economy, they’ve “suffered a complete collapse” of public support, even though they’re “economic boons.” Heck, “they generate so much money” for Loudoun County, Va., “that the local government was able to cut everybody else’s property taxes.” President Trump “frequently touts their benefits,” and he’s right. People are “irritated about new construction,” are “falling for popular but incorrect talking points” about how centers gobble up resources. Advocates must better explain their “huge” value for the country and community, as they’ll soon be “massively important” for America and its conflicts with “adversary,” “authoritarian regimes.”
“The greatest threat today to American manufacturing and global exports comes from China,” warns UnHerd’s Michael Lind. “Why, then, is the Trump administration appeasing China on trade, while picking fights with countries like Canada that are friends and allies?” President Trump is “cracking down” on Canada over non-strategic industries like “dairy, alcohol, and plywood,” instead of the nation that commands 28% of global manufacturing and 56% of global shipbuilding. “But hey, at least when it comes to plywood,” Canada takes the cake. “Oh, wait — China is responsible for more than 54% of global plywood exports.” While “a rational American trade strategy would focus on a hard decoupling of the United States from market-Leninist China,” Trump insists on this “personal and whimsical and finally incoherent” beef with Canada — the “exact opposite of what American strategy in the 21st century demands.”
“This week began with influential progressive Hasan Piker blaming Jews for the violent anti-Semitism against them and threatening them that more was coming,” thunders Commentary’s Seth Mandel — and the Democratic Party has shown itself to be “led by jellyfish” like Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on this issue (though “not entirely without vertebrates” like Rep. Hillary Scholten, who slammed Piker). Dem “powers-that-be are afraid” of a Twitch streamer and his “mean tweets”; “what can be done to immunize them from the fear?” “A steady drumbeat of headache-inducing stories,” for a start. Yet “mainstream media do not hound left-wing anti-Semites” — though “Jeffries would be thankful for such help.” Unless someone forces his hand, “the Democrats will appear to be just as much Piker’s party as Jeffries’.”
“America doesn’t produce a single ton of primary magnesium,” though before World War Two we “perfected a way to extract magnesium from ordinary seawater” and were producing “200,000 tons annually” of the metal that is “an ingredient in nearly every other metal that matters,” notes Elise Stefanik at The Wall Street Journal. We ceded the ground as “Beijing followed a deliberate playbook” to build its dominance, “combining subsidized energy and capital, cheap labor and lax environmental enforcement,” taking over an industry we used to dominate. “America is losing a race it didn’t even know was being run,” making “now” “the time to make this a national priority,” or else we’ll “remain dependent on China for a metal critical to American industry.”
