Truths and inspirations for 27 April 2026

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This is an Australian term, but useful everywhere, I think.

Needless to say, the Israeli authorities have already arrested the soldiers who vandalized the statue.  Jihadists who destroy Jewish symbols -- or kill Jewish people -- are celebrated by their own side.

When Trump is gone, this is the only thing referring to him that should be left in place in Washington.  It's the perfect monument.

This is perhaps less applicable in the US, whose immigrants (even illegal ones) have relatively low crime rates -- but in Europe, the immigrant population commits violent crimes at a much higher rate than the indigenous Europeans do.

I keep needing to remind myself how many people don't know about things like this.  The ignorance of most Americans about almost everything outside our own country is pathetic and sometimes frightening.

If this is a "genocide", it's the most incompetent genocide in history.