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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, joined at right by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Holocaust Studies Professor Yehuda Bauer once said, “Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. But above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” Everyone needs to remember these words, especially our elected officials. But it would seem that not only has the House of Representatives forgotten them, but that there is a conscious movement in Washington, D.C., to deny the atrocities of the Holocaust of the last century: the most horrific example of evil in human history.
Representative Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., right, speaks during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on September 16, 2020, in Washington, D.C. The hearing is investigating the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick. | Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images
Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin has announced that he ll be entering the 2022 New York gubernatorial race following what he decried as Gov. Andrew Cuomo s cover-ups, abuse and self-dealing.”
Zeldin made the announcement Thursday morning on Twitter, where he accused Cuomo of being “at the helm” of New York’s downfall due to the deadly nursing home order and cover-up, as well as a “long line of scandal, lies and harassment.
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The Taiwan guessing game
Washington has long kept Beijing at bay over Taiwan with ambiguity over how it would react. Now it is being pressured from all sides into a perhaps risky change of policy.
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If anything can tip the global power struggle between China and the United States into an actual military conflict, many experts and administration officials say, it is the fate of Taiwan.
Beijing has increased its military harassment of what it considers a rogue territory, including menacing flights by 15 Chinese warplanes near its shores over recent days. In response, Biden administration officials are trying to calibrate a policy that protects the democratic, technology-rich island without inciting an armed conflict that would be disastrous for all.
April 12, 2021 last updated 14:32 ET Anti-Syrian government protesters mark 10 years since the start of a popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule in Idlib, Syria, March 15, 2021 (AP photo by Ghaith Alsayed).
A ‘New Middle East’? Not Quite
Some things haven’t changed in seven years. One of the first pieces I wrote for WPR was on the prospects for transitional justice in Syria someday, roughly three years into a civil war that still hasn’t ended today. The news hook back then was the appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee of a former Syrian military photographer, hidden under a blue hoodie and identified only as “Caesar.” He had defected from the regime and smuggled a trove of roughly 55,000 photographs out of Syria, documenting the deaths of some 11,000 prisoners killed in Bashar al-Assad’s jails many showing signs of torture, their bodies tagged and numbered.