David Frum

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"Who are the other tenants in this building? Are any of them engaged in combat operations?" seems like a question I would ask if I were a news organization renting office space in Gaza City. — PolitiTweet.org

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IOW Israel told the truth that AP et al shared the building with Hamas war-fighting capabilities NYT cites concern "if Israel had not taken action, Hamas would have realized that it could shield its resources from attack by placing them near media facilities." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @radeksikorski: This is a dangerous precedent for travellers everywhere. I shall be tabling a resolution @Europarl_EN to expel Belorus… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anneapplebaum: Protasevich, the journalist arrested - who is threatened with the death penalty - works with @nexta_tv. For background,… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anneapplebaum: Details from one of the arrested journalists' colleagues: seems members of the Belarus security service, still known as… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @anneapplebaum: The Belarus government has forced down a commercial airplane flying over its territory in order to arrest a passenger -… — PolitiTweet.org

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Also, periodic reminder that while my DMs are closed, I can be reached by email via https://t.co/EaHted4uYz — PolitiTweet.org

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Bottom line: Hamas lost, but maybe not sufficiently badly to re-establish Israeli deterrence of future Hamas attacks. https://t.co/AmemohW6MA — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting after-action report on successes and failures of the 11-day campaign to suppress Hamas's May rocket attacks on Israel https://t.co/AmemohW6MA — PolitiTweet.org

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While on the subject of the "Roaring Twenties" - an article I wrote in 2014 about how Presidents Harding and Coolidge steered the world toward the Great Depression, by ignoring the global economy and focusing only on news at home. https://t.co/MIE2uKF3z3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Also ICYMI, a note on the origins of the phrase, "the roaring twenties." No, it's not a reference to either Model-T cars or the sounds of bootlegger tommy guns ... — PolitiTweet.org

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3) Understanding the lab-leak debate about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic - and how some people manage to believe both that COVID is ridiculously exaggerated and also a Chinese biological super weapon https://t.co/mo5APSLFX1 — PolitiTweet.org

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2) Over the past generation, Peru's strong economic growth has deeply reduced poverty. COVID undid so much of that progress. Now this once model society faces a grim choice between extremes in the June 6 round of its presidential election https://t.co/5nP1evzpgg — PolitiTweet.org

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Some ICYMI for a Sunday 1) How exaggerated fears of Chinese power - and disregard of Chinese weakness - is driving US to self-harming policies of trade protectionism & over-spending on military https://t.co/zVWnVRHV32 — PolitiTweet.org

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Notable thread on the rise in urban crime via @henryolsenEPPC — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ChadBown: Trade wars are good, and easy to win — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BDStanley: “Well, most of Europe spends an entire evening singing songs written by committee about how it would be great if we could br… — PolitiTweet.org

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PS I wrote in @TheAtlantic in 2014 about *why* the 1920s seemed so doom-haunted even at the time https://t.co/MIE2uKF3z3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting thread — PolitiTweet.org

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That's not what we want from our new decade! So nix talk of a "second roaring twenties." If the decade ahead delivers enduring prosperity and peace after the pandemic and the moral disaster of Trump, the 2020s will deserve a happier nickname all of their very own. END — PolitiTweet.org

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Hence the many premonitions of doom that fill the pages of eg The Great Gatsby, that brilliant novel of the period. The era's famous dance marathons seemed symbolic: frenzy leading sooner or later to inevitable collapse. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

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Whoever borrowed the adjective "roaring" for the decade of the 1920s didn't mean to say that the decade was serenely prosperous, but that it was wild, nerve-wracking, and dangerous, like the far south seas below Australia. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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The phrase "Roaring Twenties" was derived from the "Roaring Forties," the very powerful westerly winds that blow between 40 and 50 degrees latitude in the southern hemisphere. The Roaring Forties could hugely speed sailing ships - but also swamp and sink them. 2/x https://t.co/nuX1YJTvJb — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't think everyone realizes that the phrase "Roaring Twenties" - referring to the decade of the 1920s - was not coined entirely as a compliment. 1/x — PolitiTweet.org

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11 years after the onset of the Great Depression, the world was fighting the Second World War, so I'm going with "better." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DPJHodges: People describe the current rise of anti-semitism as "mindless racism". It isn't. It's targeted racism. It has a specific po… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AFP: Days after up to 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Spain's Ceuta enclave, many hundreds are still here, mostly… — PolitiTweet.org

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An editorial in a communist newspaper at the time condemned the accused as "cynical Zionists without a fatherland ... clever cosmopolitans who have sold out to the dollar. They were guided ... by Zionism [and] racial chauvinism." Fresh as today's Twitter feed. — PolitiTweet.org

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That's from pp 180-181 of Tony Judt's "Postwar" about a Stalinist purge trail in Czechoslovakia in 1952. The use of anti-Zionism as a euphemism for anti-Semitism dates back a long way. — PolitiTweet.org

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"[O]f the fourteen defendants ... eleven were Jews. On the very first page of the charge sheet it was made abundantly clear that this was no accident. The 'Trotskyite Titoite bourgeois-nationalist traitors ...' were also, and, above all, 'Zionists.' " 1/2 — PolitiTweet.org