Trump blows up ‘Palestine’, give parents school choice
Mideast watch: Trump Blows up ‘Palestine’
Donald Trump “single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred years” at his press conference on Gaza, applauds Tablet’s Lee Smith — specifically, the idea that Middle East peace requires a Palestinian state. “Given the repeated failure of the multi-decade-long dream of eliminating and replacing the Jews of Israel, it seems unlikely that the Palestinians will receive a better offer” than Trump’s plan to build a “Riviera” there. Indeed, his “generous offer” “signals a return to history, but with a twist. Trump has not only spared them, but vowed to provide them with new lives, better lives, work, new homes, and a chance to raise their families in peace.”
From the right: Give Parents School Choice
In a refreshing shift, President Trump “directed the federal Education Department to examine ways it can better support school choice programs at the state level,” cheers USA Today’s Ingrid Jacques. National test data show “that the current system of educating America’s kids isn’t working” and Trump’s order will “encourage states to break free of the stranglehold that unions have on government-run schools.” It’s imperative that Trump and Republican lawmakers “prioritize both expanding school choice incentives and doing away with the Education Department if they want to see any real change or progress.”
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Conservative: Democrats’ Ideology Problem
Democrats are “becoming more liberal, but America remains more conservative,” argues J.T. Young at The Hill. Gallup polling finds that, for the third year in a row, “Republicans led Democrats among voters who identified with one of the two parties” and “presidential exit polling in 2024 showed that Kamala Harris’s largest lead among voters based on age was her 11-point margin among 18- to 29-year-olds.” But voters tend to grow more conservative as they age, so Democrats will “need big majorities among younger voters to offset later future losses.” “Obviously, the political answer for Democrats is to become more moderate,” but it seems “they’re becoming more adamantly liberal.” Recently, “only 23 percent of House Democrats voted” for the popular Laken Riley Act, which “strengthens law enforcement’s hand against illegal immigrants who commit crimes.” “It is one thing to lose an election. It is another altogether to lose an electorate.”
Health beat: RFK’s Right on Ozempic for Kids
“Minors are being overmedicated with weight-loss drugs,” and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “is one of the few people pointing it out,” warns The Wall Street Journal’s Jillian Lederman. “The number of Americans 12 to 17 using GLP drugs in a given month rose from 1,653 in 2020 to 10,785 in 2023.” But “there is no conclusive data on the long-term effects” on kids’ health, and “the likely consequences” aren’t looking good. Studies suggest that “restricting caloric intake” can “compromise children’s physical development,” and “adolescents’ inclination toward risk-taking” can lead to abuse of the drugs. That’s “especially true for girls,” who are more likely to “exhibit disordered eating.” “Increasing rates of obesity” among children is a “real, complex societal” problem. “But it’s a mistake to treat understudied pharmaceuticals as a cheat code.”
Foreign desk: Mexico’s Alliance With Cartels
The Trump White House’s claim that “Mexican drug-trafficking organizations have an intolerable alliance with the government of Mexico” is a “seismic pronouncement that heralds a new era of confrontation between the two nations,” explains Joshua Treviño at The Spectator. And it’s “obvious to nearly all of us” who’ve worked on the issue that the statement is indeed “wholly true.” The regime “regards trafficking cartels as vehicles for profit and control and also agents of national policy abroad — especially but not only in the United States.” Team Trump “deserves full credit for speaking the plain truth.” “What follows in policy and action” is “the choice of the American government — and the fault, in full, of the Mexican one.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
