It’s notable that the people the viewing audience heard from Monday in their testimony were all Republicans.

That carries weight.

Stepien drew a stark line between “Team Normal” – those within the campaign who, as time wore on, believed clearly that Trump had lost – and those on another team populated by the likes of Giuliani and lawyers like Sidney Powell and John Eastman. Which, well, wow.

The committee said Trump went on to fundraise $250 million off of his baseless claim, which committee members cast as key in compelling people to storm the Capitol in the deadly insurrection last year.

Even a limited Russian victory will send a dangerous signal to the world that the West is weak and aggression pays. We must send lots more aid to Ukraine now to avert the loss of Donbas and to enable a counteroffensive to retake ground already occupied, but not yet fortified, by the invaders.

Officials in the West have been cautious—analysts such as Gen. Hodges and Mr. Herbst say too cautious—about increasing support for Ukraine lest it lead Russia to escalate its offensive, for example by using battlefield nuclear weapons.

…we shouldn’t be penny-wise in a conflict that will profoundly affect the future of Ukraine, the robustness of the Western alliance and perhaps the nature of the Russian regime, too. There’s a time for green eyeshades, and this isn’t it.

…the real story here is not the renewal of stop-gap measures that create an illusion of normalcy. The heart of the matter is, or should be, the ongoing failure of Israeli governments to formulate policy, to articulate a national vision and to demonstrate governance.

…the emergency order is formally a temporary improvisation… But it has lasted 55 years. Yet it turns out that the legal structure, as vital to settlement as the physical houses, is a fortress built of matchsticks.

That vote made two things clear: firstly, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government is a minority one; secondly, the attempt to incorporate an Arab party into the governing coalition has failed.

Today we can see, across a swath of the region, that open hatred for Jews and Israel has been reduced. Jerusalem’s ties with the Gulf matter greatly in this respect, helping to rewrite decades of antisemitism in the Middle East.

With Israeli businesspeople, frequenting Saudi Arabia, the kingdom wants to formalize the ties swiftly especially with Joe Biden’s visit to the two countries – now postponed till July – likely to fortify defense alliances in the region.

Pakistan’s primary backer Saudi Arabia is in the final stage of negotiations to establish diplomatic ties with Israel. It is waiting for President Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to the region to sign on the dotted line.

His work was structurally innovative and narratively traditional. There were no chapter-long sentences in his novels and no preposterous quests sapped of all plot. Instead, one was likely to receive a raw exploration of a flawed but likable protagonist, a patient, humor-laden style, and a dark storyline that deftly held the reader to the page.

Mr. Yehoshua also stirred controversy with his insistence that authentic identity as a Jew required settlement in Israel. Mr. Yehoshua once said of the protagonist of “A Late Divorce”: “Like the father who gives up his responsibilities and goes to America, Jews who leave Israel for America are escaping their responsibility.”

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog called him “one of Israel’s greatest writers” and sent condolences to Yehoshua’s family, adding that “his works, which drew from the image of our homeland and the treasures of our people, provided us a precise, sharp, loving and at times painful mirror image of ourselves.”

It’s a country people think they know about but don’t, really. ABBA, midsommar, Volvos, and pop music don’t give you a good sense of what life is like there—and life is undoubtedly, I can report as a former live-in foreigner, a little odd.

The disconnect between Sweden’s global image of perfection and its internal problems caused Swedengate to escalate. The metaphor was irresistible: Swedes dining in minimalist rooms of glass while others look on, invited into the house but not given a seat at the table.

…the concept of hospitality is loaded with strong emotions and expectations. However, in our increasingly interconnected world, it’s easy to forget that hospitality itself is contextualized by culture. Sometimes, this is dictated by broader geography.