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America’s not ready for war MICHAEL MANDELBAUM
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he principal product of Washington is words. They come in three different kinds of packages: •Memoranda, by which government departments and organizations communicate internally; •Op-ed articles, by which these various groups communicate with each other and the public; and •Reports, usually compiled under the auspices of people with expertise in the subject being addressed. All three types are highly perishable. Almost none reaches a broad audience or is read more than a few days after it appears. Even reports, longer and more detailed than memoranda or op-ed essays, generally suffer this fate, likely including the July report of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy, a body authorized by Congress with former Rep. Jane Harman as chair and former ambassador and Defense Department Under Secretary Eric Edelman as vice chair. That, however, would be unfortunate and even, conceivably, ultimately tragic. For this See America’s not ready on page 2
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‘The threats the United States faces are the most serious and most challenging the nation has encountered since 1945 and include the potential for near-term major war. … In this election year, [these challenges] have thus far gone virtually unmentioned.’
A cyberattack on critical infrastructure could affect “the availability of power, water, wastewater, and the systems that underpin economic, transportation, and financial systems. Access to critical minerals and goods needed to run the US economy and build weapon systems would be completely cut off. Major war would affect the life of every American in ways we can only begin to imagine.” Cyber battlefield, Adobe AI
C’hurst native plays offense in Braves’ land and all the people carrying guns, the crime.” Retired Georgia doc faces andHethesaidpotholes, that abortion rights — one of the foremost issues dividing Democratic and Republican candidates — rarely comes but when it does, he says that “abortion may not be for me, Hamas-friendly incumbent up, but it’s a big country and each state has its own rules.”
A highway billboard promotes Dr. Z’s candidacy.
By Ed Weintrob, The Jewish Star Dr. Barry Zisholtz was a urological surgeon, not a politician. But when the Cedarhurst native found himself in a Georgia district whose state representative was silent on Hamas terror and the concurrent wave of antisemitism, he recalled Hillel’s urging in Pirkei Avot, “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” That’s how “Dr. Z” finds himself running as a long shot candidate for the Georgia House, a sold-red Orthodox Jewish Republican in the bluest of districts where most people are Black or immigrants. And it’s Atlanta Braves country to boot! “There hasn’t been a Republican in the state house in DeKalb County in 30 years, so my chances going into this were not good,” Zisholtz told The Jewish Star. His opponent, Imani Barnes, carried the district with nearly 90 percent of the vote two years ago. For most of the voters he’s encountered, Israel and the Gaza war are not top of mind. “They’re concerned about the price of a quart of orange juice or milk, or their medicines, and their property taxes going up,
What he’s more often confronted with is his support of former President Donald Trump. He responds that he’s running for a local state House seat, but when pushed will concede that he supports Trump “because my people are at risk.” “When I see a Democrat and they say, ‘Well, you’re a Republican, you can go home.’ I say, ‘but you’re going to vote for somebody who says Hamas is not a terror and who voted against the antisemitism bill, and they would slam the door and they don’t really care about that.” Zisholtz spent his formative years in the Five Towns, moving from Flushing when he was about 8 years old and attending the Hillel School on Washington Avenue (now HAFTR). He is still connected — his mother, 91, lives in the same house on Oxford Road where he and his three siblings were raised. One of his brothers still lives in Cedarhurst. His additonal ongoing links to the Five Towns include these: •When he remarried five years ago, it was to Mindy Rosenman Mitzner, who was from Far Rockaway before moving to Houston. See Cedarhurst native on page 2