Covering armed conflicts is a risky business. Shireen Abu Akleh, a reporter for al-Jazeera, must have known that.

A Jerusalem-born, naturalized U.S. citizen, Ms. Abu Akleh went to the West Bank town of Jenin on May 11 to cover a clash between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and members of a Palestinian terrorist cell responsible for more than a dozen recent assassinations of Israeli civilians in Israeli cities.

A bullet struck and killed her. She was the 13^th al-Jazeera journalist killed in a conflict zone somewhere around the world since the news-and-propaganda outlet, owned by the state of Qatar, was founded in 1996.

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Good afternoon! Well, as you know, I'm just back from the Middle East and Asia. I've been doing a lot of thinking – no joke! – and I want to share some of my thoughts with you, my fellow Americans.

Here's the deal, folks: As I've said before, I'm pleased with the results of the midterm elections. But 70 percent of Americans say they're unhappy with the state of our nation. And my Republican colleagues may have won a slender majority in the House.

So, the next two years will be different from the past two years. If I'm going to unite Americans – always one of my goals – and if I'm to govern in the American people's interest, bipartisanship is required. It's my job to lead the way. I'm not being facetious!

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COP27 began on Sunday and I'm following the action. By action, I mean 12 days of mind-numbing meetings, speeches, and virtue signaling, spiced up with misrepresentations of scientific research and data.

COP stands for Conference of the Parties. The parties in question do not feature beer, dancing, and flirting. The term refers to the 197 governments that began getting together back in 1992 for United Nations "climate summits." This COP, the 27^th, is taking place in Sharm el-Sheik, a posh Egyptian resort on the Red Sea.

In 2015, 194 countries signed the Paris Agreement, pledging to "pursue efforts" to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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The Congressional Progressive Caucus, as I suspect you know, is the club for far-left House members. On October 24, its chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, sent the White House a letter signed by 30 of her colleagues. The subject was Vladimir Putin's imperialist and colonialist war against Ukraine.

Ignoring recent Ukrainian battlefield advances, and the absence of any sign that Mr. Putin is prepared to end the conflict, the letter urged President Biden to engage in "direct talks with Russia," "make vigorous diplomatic efforts in support of a negotiated settlement," and "reiterate this goal as America's chief priority."

Less than 24 hours later, Ms. Jayapal withdrew the letter.

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Vladimir Putin is slaughtering Ukrainian men, women, and children. Xi Jinping's is committing genocide against the Muslims of East Turkistan. Ali Khamenei is murdering Iranian girls for wearing their hijabs in what he considers a provocative manner. What is the U.N. doing in response to these crises? It's going "def con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE."

That quote, of course, is from a recent tweet by Kanye West. "DEFCON," an acronym for "defense readiness condition," is how the U.S. military indicates states of alert, ranging from 1 (the highest) to 5. Apparently, however, the performance artist who now calls himself "Ye" intended to convey that he was going on offense against Jews.

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