Minimums for a new Iran nuke deal, beware fake experts and other commentary

Even if Iran’s leaders are “willing to dispose of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, restrict itself to a purely civilian program and commit to never developing a bomb,” argue Bloomberg News’ editors, they must also agree to see their advanced centrifuges (not needed for any civilian nuclear program) “destroyed or removed from the country.” Unlike the flawed 2015 deal, new “restrictions on enrichment will have to be indefinite or pushed out so far into the future that they might as well be.” Also, Tehran must agree “to accept intrusive monitoring by American or European inspectors” as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency “to demonstrate compliance.”“The propaganda campaigns against Israel rely on an industry of manufactured ‘expertise,’ ” explains Commentary’s Seth Mandel — but the game is collapsing.A Sky News anchor recently denouncing “Israel’s strike on a tunnel system beneath a Gaza hospital to eliminate senior Hamas officials, notably its de facto leader Muhammad Sinwar,” cited “our experts” in insisting “Israel was wrong to say there were tunnels underneath the hospital” — but then “Hamas confirmed that the targeted area was indeed the site of a tunnel system,” followed by “reports that Muhammad Sinwar’s body was indeed found in the tunnel system targeted by the IDF.” Fact is, news organizations now find “experts” whenever “they’re needed to lend an academic gloss to rank speculation and conspiracy theories.”Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prompted groups like the NAACP to fast-track “efforts to elect more black officials,” believing “that black political power would naturally lead to black upward mobility,” but the election of black mayors, congressmen and aldermen hasn’t resulted in “the broader economic and social uplift that many expected from increased black political clout,” grumbles City Journal’s Jason L.

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