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A Cuban who fled to the US compares the insurrectionist with Castro.

The insurrectionist is far worse than Castro. Castro established education and provided medical care for all, while eliminating hunger; however, he also abolished vital human rights. Dissidents such as Oswaldo Payá admired the good side of what Castro did, while standing up to repression to change the bad side.

The insurrectionist, by contrast, has no wish to make life better for Americans unless that serves him. He and his minions work against education, against medicine, and for starvation.

*World [is going far too slowly] on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds.*

Standing Together holds Arab-Jewish peace rallies in cities in Israel.

I think my wishes of benevolence fit together with that campaign.

*Many hostages released by Hamas still being treated for trauma. Head of psychiatry at Tel Aviv medical centre says hostages have undergone worst abuse she has witnessed.* It sounds horrible.

HAMAS is a terrorist organization and some of its kidnappers vented all their hatred against hostages. But that is not an excuse to hate all Palestinians in Gaza and torture them,

Some of these kinds of torture have been practiced by other counties such as China and the US.