From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to today’s F-35 sales, Britain’s historical responsibility has now evolved into support for the present-day outright genocide. But our solidarity movement is growing too, writes BEN JAMAL
Trump bloodied but emboldened after attack
But it was President Biden, faltering on stage and in the polls, who may have sustained the more serious wound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

“I COULD stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” former US president Donald Trump famously boasted at a January 2016 campaign rally in Sioux Center, Iowa.
Instead, at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, somebody shot him. The failed assassination attempt will likely further inflame Trump’s base and boost the Republican presidential candidate’s popularity.
What it won’t do is prompt any calls from the right for gun control in a country where daily gun violence is so routine it barely makes headlines.
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