From the right: Stop Funding UNRWA
Sens. Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz call on President Trump to “fully dismantle UNRWA and eliminate it from the U.N. budget” because “it has long connived at Islamist terrorism against Israel,” thunders the Washington Examiner’s Editorial Board. UNRWA’s very existence “implies falsely that Palestinian Arabs are in a unique position and should be found a home in what is now Israeli sovereign territory.” Cotton and Cruz “cited UNRWA’s links to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in Israel,” where 12 UNWRA employees joined in the slaughter of 1,200 innocents. At least 10% “of UNRWA’s Gaza workforce” belongs to “groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, according to Israeli intelligence,” a fact the UN simply ignores. “American tax dollars helped make this possible. That must end.”
Radical watch: Red Fat Cats Feud over Strategy
Two “Communist millionaires” who are “putative allies” as they separately fund “a transnational web of far-left groups” are exchanging “fire” over their opposing models of “serious radicalism,” notes City Journal’s Stu Smith. Cox Communications heir Jim Chambers favors “militant” “direct action,” such as the “targeting of Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems” by Palestine Action UK with “illegal vandalism, destruction, and force,” while Neville Roy Singham believes “revolutionary mass movements will fail unless they are guided by an educated vanguard.” This “split between the far-Left’s two most serious backers” may help Congress, which is probing Singham’s funding sources, to achieve “more effective scrutiny” of domestic groups “involved in coordinating large-scale unrest.”
Auto beat: Behind Ferrari’s Luce Horror
Ferrari’s new $640,000 electric Luce “looks to be the biggest product introduction flop since Crystal Pepsi,” snarks Jack Baruth at The Free Press. It doesn’t look like a Ferrari, but like “every other electric four-door sedan on the market, only worse.” In reaction, Ferrari stock fell 8% in Milan and 5% in New York. The Luce exists because of “European compliance and Chinese tariffs”: “Ferrari is heavily reliant on Chinese business” as 12% of its cars sell there, but tariffs hike non-EV models’ cost. And the EU requires electric-vehicle production. “Ferrari will be lucky to sell a thousand Luces a year,” but the dud “is just the natural consequence of regulations that require every car firm to offer at least one EV.”
View from Kyiv: New Tactics Change Vlad’s Tune
“Perceptions of Russia have changed around the world” because Ukrainian strikes “are inflicting serious damage on Russia’s war machine and the public’s morale,” cheers Igor Bondar at The Hill. “The Russian dictator has genuinely felt the power of the Ukrainian military” and changed his approach, no longer calling “the authorities in Kyiv ‘drug addicts’ and ‘neo-Nazis’” instead now civilly saying “‘Mr. Zelensky’ when referring to Ukraine’s president.” Kyiv’s new drone tactic changed “the map of the Russian-Ukrainian front itself” as its forces carried out “massive strikes more than 1,200 kilometers deep into Russian territory.” “For the first time since 2024, Russia lost more territory than it captured” these last five months, losing “servicemen faster than Putin can recruit their replacements.”
Americas watch: Mexico Protects Cartels
Mexico’s government has granted “institutional protection” to 10 “current and former Mexican officials” indicted by the United States “for allegedly conspiring with the Sinaloa Cartel to import massive quantities of drugs” into America, fumes Arturo McFields at The Hill. President Claudia Sheinbaum claims extraditions would be “a violation of national sovereignty,” and her minions complain that “the fight against drug trafficking is being used as a campaign tool by right-wing groups” for the midterm elections. Mexico “is blackmailing and testing the US,” falling back on historical paranoia about the “so-called threat of an invader.” But the Drug Enforcement Agency signals “the beginning of a new phase” in the war on the cartels, one that will hold “Mexican government officials” to account for conspiring with the drug lords.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
