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Foreign desk: An AIDS Funding Crisis That Isn’t
“A major campaign” goals to reverse federal “cuts to global HIV/AIDS funding” within the PEPFAR program to keep away from “killing millions,” “causing global turmoil” and “advancing China’s global agenda,” experiences Max Primorac at The Hill. “That sounds grave. Fortunately, it’s completely untrue.” Six months into the funding freeze, there’s “no news” that “thousands” have died; no nation has “imploded.” Rather, Africans are taking care of their own people. “Equally absurd” is the China angle: 19 of the highest 20 support recipients “were already members of China’s Belt and Road Initiative before any of this.” In reality, the “real driver of this campaign” is the waste-fraud-and-abuse-riddled foreign-aid industry itself. If Congress cut PEPFAR support in half, it might “empower Africans” to step up. That’s the “industry’s worst-case scenario.”
Campus watch: Faculty Unions Drive Jew-Hate
Campus labor unions are “running amok” with anti-Israel actions and focusing on Jewish faculty who gained’t observe this system, fumes Nathan McGrath in The Wall Street Journal. Israeli faculty at UC Berkeley have been “barred from union working groups” and “excluded from union communications” about plans to demand a boycott of the Jewish state. Plus, union leaders complained Jewish members would “mess up” their work. At CUNY, a Jewish professor resigned from his union after it held conferences on the Jewish sabbath and pledged to help Jews “unlearn Zionism.” Jewish faculty face a “Catch-22”: Either “join the union and face harassment and discrimination, or leave the union and lose any voice in the workplace.”
Libertarian: Trump Can’t Control the Weather
After devastating floods, “some local and state officials in Texas were quick to point the finger at the federal National Weather Service,” notes Reason’s Christian Britschgi. “This criticism was accepted by liberal commentators and Democratic elected officials,” reminiscent of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Democrats rush guilty the “Department of Government Efficiency cuts to the agency, which did leave some local Texas NWS positions unfilled.” But NWS says it had “adequate staffing” and “adequate technology,” whereas “independent meteorologists have also defended NWS’s performance.” In short, “The Trump administration’s cuts to NWS didn’t affect this most recent disaster in Texas.” Reality verify: The company “can only do so much in the face of a 1,000-year flood that causes a river to rise 30 feet in a few hours in the middle of the night during the prime recreation season.”
More From Post Editorial Board
Conservative: Obama Drove the Russia Hoax
President Barack Obama stands out because the one who “directed the intelligence community to interfere in the peaceful transition of power to his successor — Donald Trump,” argues The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland. The new CIA report on the infamous 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment that fueled the “Russia hoax” indicts a host of acquainted characters, however Obama “was behind the entire plot to portray Putin as seeking to help Trump win the 2016 general election.” Obama didn’t simply give the nod to the sham, “he knew what he was doing and he knew who would do his bidding.” As the mastermind and ringleader behind the plot, Obama deserves to be a “pariah” and “forever ostracized.”
Mideast beat: Times’ Wishcasting ‘Analysis’
A New York Times front-page story saying that Israel’s battle success has “deepened its isolation” is a “claim that doesn’t even hold up,” grumbles Commentary’s Seth Mandel. That “Jerusalem and Damascus are in negotiations” for peace, plus Israel’s use of Arab airspace “to take out Iran’s air defenses,” are indicators “not of isolation but of integration.” The Times claims the response to the Oct 7, 2023, Hamas-led assault “cemented the view of Israel as a pariah” — but the paper has been “warning of Israel’s ‘pariah’ status for nearly 20 years.” “Most of Israel’s bad press is made of 100 percent recycled material.” Simply put: “Israel won a defensive war” and “its enemies and critics are struggling to cope.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
