Tough debate —but Trump got to Joe, and Joe snapped “shut up, man!” To the President? A bad and memorable moment for Biden—and he kept rolling his eyes and making faces. Just like Al Gore—not good. Not good at all. Trump won the worst debate I’ve ever seen.

As a political matter Biden did fine, and Trump hurt himself. But for the sake of the country Biden should consider refusing to do any more such “debates.” Biden can do weekly town halls, including Trump supporters. But he shouldn’t dignify Trump by being on stage with him again.

I literally have no idea who won this debate. I just know we all lost.

It was a given that Chris Wallace would be a miserable moderator of the first presidential debate. But if he was useful for anything, it was in cluing President Trump to that, yes, he really is there to fight the supposed middleman as much as he is to fight his actual opponent, Joe Biden.

It became obvious five minutes in that Donald Trump’s strategy was to interrupt, yell, insult, and disrupt as often as he could. This is a strategy that can work only if no one gets in the way of it, and Chris Wallace just let it go on. Maybe Wallace was caught by surprise by Trump’s bellicosity and primate-dominance. (But—c’mon.) Even so, two or three minutes of this should have been enough to adjust. He didn’t adjust. And he let Trump roll over him.

…although some media observers were quick to trash the veteran broadcaster, that may have been unfair. It’s hard to know what he — or anyone — could have done, given President Trump’s refusal to abide by the rules or observe even a modicum of decorum. The 90-minute debate fell, almost immediately, into chaos and cross-talking, not because Wallace isn’t a capable broadcast interviewer but because Trump was out of control.

In practice, this legislation does not limit demonstrations, it bans them. The proposed restrictions are so draconian that they amount to a prohibition. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting, in the most cynical fashion, to exploit the coronavirus and the restrictions needed to fight its spread in order to undermine fundamental democratic rights and to suppress the dissent against him and his incorrigible government.

Many among the organizers of the anti-Netanyahu demonstrations have called on demonstrations to be temporarily suspended while daily new cases of COVID-19 continue to rise. Plenty of the protesters agree, but not all. Thus far, the zealots have come out ahead. In both the Haredi camp and among the secular protesters, extremism rules.

Anyone who believes in democracy also believes in the right to demonstrate and to protest against perceived injustice. But demonstrations should also have their limits. Just as there is a right to demonstrate in residential neighborhoods, the people living in those neighborhoods and paying municipal rates and taxes there are entitled to a respite.

As Kushner looked at the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with fresh eyes, he undoubtedly came to realize that P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas, pushing 85, would never make peace. Abbas wants to be remembered as a lifelong leader of the resistance, like his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, not as an Arab Zionist who, in his final days, shook hands with Benjamin Netanyahu on the White House lawn.

Abbas painted himself into a corner. Now, isolated and sidelined, he is talking about holding elections after fifteen years… Now that Israel has gotten recognition from new friends in the Gulf – and potentially will get it from more states in the region – it is time, from a position of strength, to reach out to Ramallah.

Weary of repeating his people’s longstanding grievances with Israel, the Palestinian leader used his United Nations General Assembly speech on Friday to request an international conference in early 2021 “with the participation of all concerned parties.” [.] Mr. Abbas spoke against the backdrop of changes that could redefine the power dynamics in the Middle East…

Rabin risked everything for the chance of peace: going into a shaky minority government, ripping apart Israeli society, having the right-wing calling him a traitor with rabbis conducting rituals to usher his untimely death, all while grinding his teeth against brutal suicide bombings… Rabin broke with his past. And for that reason, he was assassinated.

Yitzhak Rabin is a hero to Jews around the globe, including across America and in your own district… Individuals who call for anti-normalization––who refuse to acknowledge the actual existence of the Jewish state or the humanity of its diverse inhabitants and supporters––are not helping Palestinians, they are demonizing Jews and Jewish collective liberation.

The framework of the Oslo Accords set in motion decades of failed negotiations and continued subjugation. The Palestinians formally recognized “the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security.” In return, Rabin’s government neither accepted the goal of a Palestinian state, nor offered guarantees that the settlement construction would stop.

As a language, wokeness is self-consciously engineered to be easier to exploit and use to bully your way to the top if you are a member of a “marginalized group” (to use woke parlance). That is, in a community where everyone speaks wokese, the intention is that a trans woman of color will have her ideas advanced and her enemies thwarted, and will generally be advantaged by the milieu she finds herself within, because that is how the rules are structured.

If Roe is overturned, access to abortion will depend on where you live — but access to abortion already depends on where you live. At the same time, we have people voting for Donald Trump because he’ll appoint justices who will overturn Roe. Maybe it is time to face the fact that abortion access will be fought for in legislatures, not courts.

The starting point for this debate should be recognition that isolationism, no less than internationalism, has both strategic upsides and strategic downsides. Isolationism succeeded in enhancing America’s security and prosperity during the 19th century and helped the nation resist the imperial temptation after 1898, but led it into dangerous delusion during the interwar years. Liberal internationalism was an effective and sustainable grand strategy during the Cold War, but the nation’s internationalist calling has since gone awry, producing pronounced strategic excess.