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President Biden is sounding tougher toward Israel these days and showing more compassion for people starving in Gaza. So we’re now in a bizarre situation: American bombs and American aid are both falling from Gaza’s skies. In 1948, the United States and its allies undertook the famous Berlin Airlift to rescue West Berlin from a Soviet blockade. Israel is insisting on painstaking inspections of every aid truck going into Gaza. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley visited the Gaza border and found that Israel has blocked water purifiers.
Persons: Biden, ” Biden, it’s, Benjamin Netanyahu, we’re, Israel, Chris Van Hollen, Jeff Merkley Organizations: Israel’s, UNICEF Locations: Israel, Gaza, Rafah, United States, West Berlin, Soviet
As Democrats puzzle over how President Biden can be so unpopular, it’s worth looking at the global context — because he’s actually doing better than most Western leaders. In the Morning Consult approval ratings for global leaders, Biden polls better than leaders in Canada, Britain, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, France and Japan. Here in America, we often attribute Biden’s unpopularity to his age, and that’s certainly part of it. But youthful leaders abroad are even less popular: In Britain, people fault the 43-year-old prime minister, Rishi Sunak, for being “too inexperienced for these grim times,” as The New Statesman put it. So while there’s a far-right tide that may also swamp the United States, it’s not hopeless for Biden.
Persons: Biden, he’s, that’s, Rishi Sunak, Donald Trump, it’s Organizations: New Statesman Locations: Canada, Britain, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, France, Japan, America, United States
When President Biden weighs American policy toward Gaza, may he think of a gentle scholar named Mohammed Alshannat. Alshannat is a Palestinian in Gaza who at the start of the war was working remotely on his Ph.D. dissertation in linguistics for Rhodes University in South Africa. He is the opposite of Hamas, for in his writing he has criticized suicide bombings and rocket firings. I have been texting him during the war, but his main outside contact has been Lindsay Houghton, a fellow doctoral student at Rhodes. I have trimmed for length, but he wrote in English and these are his words:Oct. 11: The situation in Gaza is very grave.
Persons: Biden, Mohammed Alshannat, Lindsay Houghton, Houghton Organizations: Rhodes University, Rhodes Locations: Gaza, Palestinian, South Africa
Opinion | Fighting Hopelessness in Treating Addiction
  + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Thank you, Mr. Kristof, for digging into this crisis and for reporting on this program in Tulsa that has had so much success for women in recovery. My niece was certainly someone who may have survived if she had found a program like this. Instead, she was incarcerated for crimes associated with her drug use, and she found little if any help there. I can’t help wondering what if instead of locking her up, she had been compelled to enter a program like Women in Recovery. The writer is the author of “White Flag,” about her attempt to help her niece.
Persons: Nicholas Kristof, Kristof, Judy L, Mandel Newington, Locations: Tulsa, Conn
A Florida school district, facing pressure about “nudity” in schools, removed from shelves a picture book that showed an illustration of a goblin’s bare bottom. Some students were saved from debauchery when school officials colored in a pair of pants on the goblin. “The freedom to read is under assault in the United States — particularly in public schools,” PEN America warned in a report last year. Listen to conservatives, and they argue that the crisis in American schools is the opposite: It’s about leftist teachers propagandizing on critical race theory and giving kids new pronouns while denying them safe bathrooms. Donald Trump has promised to defund “any school that’s pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity and any other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children.” He added: “This is what must be done to save our country from destruction.”
Persons: Donald Trump, defund, Organizations: ” PEN Locations: Florida, United States
Does the West have a double standard when it comes to Israel, pouncing on everything it does with undue harshness? When he was challenged about the bloodshed in Gaza on “Face the Nation” last weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel responded, “What would America do” after something like the Oct. 7 Hamas attack? “Would you not be doing what Israel is doing? And the World Jewish Congress cites “criticizing Israeli defensive operations, but not those of other Western democracies” as an example of antisemitism. All this strikes me as both right and wrong, a fair point and a false one.
Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Rabbi Marvin Hier, , Israel’s Organizations: The Jerusalem Post, Jewish Locations: Israel, Gaza, The Jerusalem, Germany, Japan
Opinion | Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone With Travel
  + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “The Isolationism Antidote,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, Feb. 11):I was surprised that in his column addressing the need for Americans to spend time abroad Mr. Kristof failed to mention the fact that the Peace Corps has been doing exactly that since 1961. In 2011, the Peace Corps celebrated its 50th anniversary, and for the occasion three other editors and I created four books of Peace Corps stories, now housed in the Library of Congress. This collection of more than 200 stories from the Americas, Africa, Eurasia and Asia/Pacific covers the range of joys, frustrations, surprises and sorrows that Peace Corps volunteers experience in the two years of service. I heartily agree with Mr. Kristof and would add that the Peace Corps has made a good start doing what he suggests. The writer served in the Peace Corps in India from 1967 to 1969.
Persons: Nicholas Kristof, Mr, Kristof, Jane Albritton, Nicholas Kristof’s Organizations: Peace Corps, of Congress, Corps Locations: Americas, Africa, Eurasia, Asia, Pacific, Jane Albritton Santa Fe, India
Vladimir Putin’s Russia has just become even more bleak and soulless with the reported death in an Arctic prison of Aleksei Navalny, the 47-year-old dissident who showed immense bravery and humor as he tried to bring democracy to his homeland. Navalny’s strength, resilience and courage contrast with the fecklessness of so many Americans dealing with Putin. From Donald Trump to Tucker Carlson, a remarkable number of American leaders and their mouthpieces roll over before the Russian president. “Why do Trump and his congressional enablers want to further appease this Russian tyrant?” Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, asked after the news broke of Navalny’s death. I hope Navalny’s example will fortify Americans and Europeans alike, for despite all our resources we have not shown a sliver of the strength that he did.
Persons: Vladimir Putin’s, Aleksei Navalny, Putin, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Trump, Dick Durbin Locations: Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Russian, Illinois
As of publication, a link to an OnlyFans account is accessible through a bio in Dolezal’s verified Instagram account. The linked OnlyFans account, updated as recently as February 14, blocks images for non-subscribers but contains identifying information and captions alluding to adult and “nude” content. Her apparent OnlyFans account bears the name Rachel Dolezal. OnlyFans is a social media platform where creators post photos and videos and can charge users a fee to access it. Its rising popularity has led to innumerable instances of people being fired from their jobs for being OnlyFans creators, including several teachers.
Persons: Rachel Dolezal, Dolezal, Julie Farbarik, ” Farbarik, ” Rachel Dolezal, Nicholas K, Nkechi Amare Diallo, , Josephine Beall Willson Bruce Organizations: CNN, National Association for, Advancement of Colored People, Catalina Foothills School District, KVOA, Social Media, District Employees, NAACP, Human Rights Education Institute, Guardian Locations: Arizona, Spokane, Coeur d'Alene , Idaho
Former U.S. president Donald Trump pictured during a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at Winfield House, London on Dec. 3, 2019. She added that the NATO alliance "allows us to prevent war." The defense spending target is not a requirement and many countries have sought to ramp up their military spending since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. NATO's so-called Article 5 mutual defense clause means that an attack against one NATO member is considered an attack against all allies. "NATO cannot be an 'a la carte' military alliance ... depending on the humor of the president of the U.S.," Borrell said when asked to respond to Trump's comments, Reuters reported.
Persons: Donald Trump, Jens Stoltenberg, NICHOLAS KAMM, Trump, , Vladimir, Dmitry Peskov, Trump's, Joe Biden, Biden, Nikki Haley, Haley, Chris Christie, I've, Jake Sullivan, Dursun, Stoltenberg, NATO Ally, Josep Borrell, Borrell Organizations: U.S, NATO, Winfield House, AFP, Getty, Former, Statista, Russia, Reuters, Top, Democratic, Republican, South Carolina Gov, CBS, NBC News, US National Security, North Atlantic Council, Anadolu Locations: London, Former U.S, South Carolina, Russia, U.S, United States, Brussels, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine, NATO's
The Isolationism Antidote - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Why has the isolationist wing of Congress been blocking aid to Ukraine and become, in effect, a tool for President Vladimir Putin of Russia? Republican politics explain some of this folly, but I think another reason is pure cluelessness. Lack of familiarity with the world is, I think, one reason the United States periodically pursues self-destructive policies around the world. A second Trump presidency might entail even more consequential mistakes: pulling out of NATO, abandoning Ukraine, upending the post-World War II international system. Time spent abroad corrodes stereotypes (of the kind one hears these days about Israelis and Palestinians alike) and shores up our empathy by reminding us of our common humanity.
Persons: Vladimir Putin, George W, Bush, Trump Organizations: NATO Locations: Ukraine, Russia, Congress, United States, Utah
There’s a whip-smart 10-year-old girl in Gaza who speaks good English, displays a radiant smile and seemed to have a bright future. Instead, she’s lying in a hospital bed with a badly infected wound in her thigh from a bomb blast. “She was supposed to be in Japan,” said Dr. Samer Attar, an orthopedic surgeon who cared for the girl and told me about her. Dr. Attar said the girl needed an amputation at the hip to save her life. Her dad, struggling to come to terms with how his and his daughter’s lives have collapsed, is resisting for now.
Persons: There’s, , Samer Attar, Attar, Iraq —, Dr Organizations: Northwestern University School of Medicine, Rahma Locations: Gaza, Japan, Aleppo, Syria, Ukraine, Iraq
A war game stimulated a conflict between Taiwan and China if Donald Trump became president in 2025. AdvertisementWhat would happen if tensions escalated between Taiwan and China in 2025 during a potential second Trump administration? One war game simulation suggested the conflict would be swift — and ended with a troubling omen for Taiwan. "Taiwan was toast," Alexander C. Huang, an international relations director for Taiwan's KMT political party, told The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof. In interviews, Trump has repeatedly refused to explicitly say if he would come to Taiwan's defense if China invaded.
Persons: Donald Trump, Taiwan couldn't, , Trump, Alexander C, Huang, Nicholas Kristof, Kristof, Donald Trump's, Stanley Rosen, Rosen Organizations: Taiwan, Service, KMT, New York Times, The, Strategic, International Studies, Trump, University of Southern, China Institute Locations: Taiwan, China, America, Washington, DC, Japan, University of Southern California's US, Hong Kong
After failing to break into the cash register, Bill walked out of the store and drove off with his girlfriend. Gerhardt awoke and called 911, and an ambulance rushed her to a hospital, where she remained for three days. The police promptly caught Bill, still covered in Gerhardt’s blood. “I got lucky because I had a gun in the car, and I always carried it,” Bill told me. “That was one of the hardest things to go through,” Sue Buchholz, his stepmother, who raised him for most of his boyhood, told me.
Persons: Bill, Gerhardt, , , ” Bill, ” Sue Buchholz, Buchholz
The globe is already pockmarked with crises, and here may be another: North Korea is acting in highly unusual ways, leading some veteran analysts to fear it is preparing a surprise attack on South Korea and perhaps on Japan and Guam as well. I’ve seen many false alarms since I began covering and visiting North Korea in the 1980s. But one of those experts is Robert Carlin, who has been analyzing North Korea for 50 years for the C.I.A., State Department and other organizations. Carlin and Hecker published their warning in an essay on the 38 North website, which focuses on North Korea. They raised the possibility that North Korea might use its nuclear warheads to strike the region (it’s not clear if its warheads could reach the United States and survive re-entry into the atmosphere).
Persons: Kim Jong, Robert Carlin, Siegfried Hecker, Carlin, Hecker Organizations: State Department, Stanford, North Locations: North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Guam, Korea, United States
watch nowSome Davos participants are already preparing their business for a potential Republican leader in the White House. "Considering what happened when President Trump was in office, his main interest is trade. He added that his company is allocating more resources to their operations in the United States so they can protect themselves against any trade disputes. "We have to produce locally, especially in the United States ... We have scenarios to be able to respond to that leadership change," he added. The United States is one of the main markets for Suntory, which is looking to expand its sales beyond China.
Persons: Donald Trump, State Rex Tillerson, Nicholas Kamm, I've, Tim Adams, Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Joe Biden, Takeshi Niinami, Bill Winters, Biden Organizations: State, Economic, AFP, Getty, Institute of International Finance, CNBC, Florida Gov, South Carolina Gov, Republican, Trump, Democratic, Suntory, Congress, Standard Chartered, U.S Locations: Davos, Switzerland, DAVOS, United States, Swiss, Iowa, The Iowa, China, U.S, Washington, Beijing
Opinion | The Things We Disagree On About Gaza
  + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
I’ve been very critical of Israel’s counterattack on Gaza, which appears to have killed a woman or child about once every eight minutes for the past three months. Many of my readers and friends disagree with these columns and are pained by what they see as my unfairness toward Israel. Yes, Hamas started this war with its brutal attack on civilians, and it has been indifferent to Palestinian lives. Israel was understandably shattered by what happened on Oct. 7, and I appreciate that trauma and share that sadness. It’s too late to save those massacred on Oct. 7, but we can still try to reduce the toll in Gaza this month and this year.
Persons: I’ve, Israel, I’m aghast, Mao, It’s Locations: Gaza, Israel
Chain pays tribute to these restaurants with new interpretations of their most iconic dishes, which are created by Michelin-starred chef Tim Hollingsworth. "We all came up on different chain restaurants and, from a very authentic place, we all got excited about them." Advertisement"Ironically, since we started Chain, these chain restaurants have had sort of this resurgence," Hollingsworth said. How did a comedian, film producer, and Michelin-starred chef help predict the resurgence of chain restaurants? "It's become so hard to capture the attention and interest of a massive amount of people, but chain restaurants have been around for 50 or 60 years.
Persons: , Jack, B.J, Novak, Friendly's, Nicholas Kraft, Chain, Tim Hollingsworth, Kraft, hadn't, Bell, Mindy Kaling, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, margarita, Rachel Bilson, Dunkin, Chrissy, Red Robin, Let's, Phil Rosenthal, Chef Hollingsworth, Thomas Keller's, Hollingsworth, Ruth De Jong, Oppenheimer, John Mayer, Andy Cohen, lockdowns, Tim Hollingsworth's, Bell's, Taco Bell, De Jong, We're, Finneas, It's Organizations: Service, Michelin, Business, New Americana, ChainFest, Steakhouse, Crunchwrap, Panda Express, Texas Locations: Boston, Los Angeles, Olive, ChainFest, Seattle, LA, Napa, Texas, West Hollywood
I knew Kissinger only slightly (he worked to charm journalists, just as he believed in engaging other adversaries) but see lessons both in his accomplishments and in his catastrophes. He had a capacity to see around corners, perceive possibilities for change and then work tirelessly to achieve them. China early in the Nixon administration was isolated and chaotic, with Red Guards rampaging through the country. But Kissinger saw opportunity and nurtured it in ways that led to the unimaginable: a presidential visit and eventually normalization of relations and an explosion of trade. Russia felt sufficiently outmaneuvered that it then invited Nixon to Moscow and signed a landmark arms control agreement.
Persons: Henry Kissinger, Kissinger, Prince Metternich’s, Nixon Organizations: Red Guards Locations: Europe, China, Russia, Moscow
Bottom line It was another terrific quarter from Salesforce with steady, double-digit revenue growth and a continued operating margin uplift, leading to a huge increase in earnings per share. Additionally, the topline growth story has some game to it, thanks to the surge in interest in its Data Cloud. By Cloud unit, the most exciting performance in the quarter came from the Data Cloud. Revenue growth accelerated to 22% from 16% in the prior quarter, and the company said it added 1,000 new customers in the quarter alone. Artificial intelligence is driving the interest in the Data Cloud, as more customers seek to use Mulesoft's integration technology to unlock data across legacy systems, cloud apps, and devices.
Persons: Salesforce, Marc Benioff, management's, Salesforce's headcount, Salesforce's, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Jim, Nicholas Kamm Organizations: Revenue, LSEG, CNBC, Salesforce, Economic, Washington, AFP, Getty Locations: Americas, Africa, Asia, headcount, Washington ,
Dallas and Houston are two Democratic bubbles in Texas that have long faced the familiar urban ache of homeless people slumped on sidewalks and camping in parks. In Dallas, homelessness worsened for years, and that city now has the most unhoused people in Texas. Meanwhile, the Houston region has slashed homelessness by more than 60 percent since 2011. Delegations from around the country now troop to Houston to seek lessons, with the mayors of Chicago, Los Angeles and Denver traipsing through this summer. Houston achieved its results on the cheap, spending very little of its own money even as West Coast cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., have each poured hundreds of millions of dollars into efforts to address homelessness without much to show for them.
Organizations: Dallas, Houston Locations: Houston, Texas, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, West Coast, San Francisco, Portland
Gifts That Change Lives - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Nicholas Kristof | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Wondering what to give friends and relatives this holiday season? Here are ideas for gifts that change lives. This is also a milestone because I’m joining forces with what used to be called The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, founded more than a century ago so the newspaper and readers could together help people struggling during the holiday season. We’ve reinvented it as The New York Times Communities Fund, and the three nonprofits on my list will also be on the roster supported by the Communities Fund. Our joint aim is to encourage more donations based on rigorous evidence of effectiveness for readers who seek to donate money as intelligently as they earn it.
Persons: I’ve, We’ve Organizations: New York Times, New York Times Communities Fund, Communities Fund
We’ve reached a searing milestone: In just five weeks of war, half of 1 percent of Gaza’s population has been killed. The second myth is that Palestinians can be put off indefinitely, strung along by Israel, the United States and other countries. I’m all for surgical strikes against Hamas and I would be delighted if Israel managed to end extremism in Gaza. It also means renouncing what Netanyahu called “mighty vengeance” that transforms entire neighborhoods of Gaza into rubble, with bodies buried underneath. If you weep only for Israeli children, or only for Palestinian children, you have a problem that goes beyond your tear ducts.
Persons: , We’ve, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Isaac Herzog, Israel, Roy Grow, Mohammed Alshannat, , Netanyahu, don’t Organizations: Hamas, Health Ministry, United Nations, Bank, Carleton College Locations: Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Israel, United States, Palestinian, Palestine, Saudi Arabia
It may not be possible to end the Gaza war this year, establish a post-Hamas peace in Gaza and restart a process to give Palestinians the state they deserve. Biden may be the single most popular person in Israel today, and the United States has leverage as Israel’s most important ally and diplomatic protector. Biden’s forceful backing of Israel after the Hamas terror attack won him enormous gratitude from a people not much used to such unequivocal support. To his credit, Biden has tried to nudge Israel in this direction, as has Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The Biden administration has already encouraged Israel to ratchet its assault on Gaza several notches toward the surgical end, by using smaller bombs and allowing humanitarian pauses.
Persons: Biden, Antony Blinken, They’ve, , Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Netanyahu, , General David Petraeus, Israel, Marwan Barghouti, Palestine’s Mandela Organizations: Israel, United Nations, Gaza Health Ministry, State Department, The United Nations, Israeli Army, Biden, United Nations Security Council, Jewish, West Bank Locations: Israel, Palestine, Gaza, United States, Iran, America, Iraq, Jerusalem
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