{"id":2254006,"date":"2024-05-27T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T00:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tony-perkins-gop-must-never-retreat-on-pro-life-cause\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T20:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T00:46:44","slug":"tony-perkins-gop-must-never-retreat-on-pro-life-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tony-perkins-gop-must-never-retreat-on-pro-life-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Perkins: Unyielding GOP Stance Needed on Pro-Life Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftony-perkins-gop-must-never-retreat-on-pro-life-cause%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2254006&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The sanctity\u200b of human life\u2062 transcends politics and should be paramount for all political parties. \u2063Referencing Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s firm beliefs, the fight for life&#8217;s\u2062 sanctification calls for united and unwavering\u200d commitment.\u200c Analyzing \u200cthe Republican Party&#8217;s 170-year history unearths its success and pitfalls regarding major moral questions relating to human rights. Referencing the 19th-century debates and legislative changes, the power of the American Medical Association in advocating for unborn children, the abolition of slavery, the suffrage movement, and Constitutional amendments all highlight crucial\u2062 turning points in the fight for rights. The 20th and 21st centuries experienced rapid development towards protecting fundamental rights. Likewise, tragedies like mass violence, genocides, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-parliament-votes-unanimously-to-recognize-chinas-genocide\/\" title=\"Canadian Parliament Votes Unanimously To Recognize China\u2019s Genocide\">coercive population control<\/a> alongside advances in science and technology embody the paradoxical nature\u2062 of progress.\u200d Drawing parallel to the Democratic and Republican parties&#8217;\u2063 different approaches \u200dto \u200dslavery and rights in \u200cthe 19th century \u2064provides\u2063 a lens to view contemporary issues like\u2063 abortion and assisted suicide. Ronald Reagan&#8217;s commitment to \u2062pro-life principles led to \u2063his victory\u200b in the 1980 elections, showcasing the importance of persistently defending life. Any divergence from these principles\u2064 bears the danger of electoral failure. In today&#8217;s heated debates on issues like \u200dthe sexual revolution and controversial practices such as children&#8217;s sex changes, to remain steadfast on protecting life is paramount. The \u2063campaign is not just about the protection of unborn lives, but also the well-being of women who didn&#8217;t expect to become pregnant or were abandoned due to their pregnancy. The action of upholding justice is daunting, but\u200d choosing justice and right to life over political expediency adheres to the values\u2063 of true freedom. Therefore, \u200bthe commitment to life&#8217;s\u2064 sanctity \u2064is a timeless\u200c issue that requires \u2063our fidelity despite\u200d the complexities of modern \u200dtimes.\u200d Care and protection for all life forms, especially the most vulnerable, should be a moral compass guiding us in the \u200bburgeoning political and social storm.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<section>\n<p>The stresses on America both internationally and domestically are immense. We face the brute reality of war in Ukraine, which could easily spill into a NATO country. The Middle East is more volatile than at any time since the founding of Israel 76 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>There are grim warnings from some people of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sign-times-us-civil-war-likely-soon-chilling-percentage-americans-say-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civil war<\/a> here at home as the cancel culture seeks to silence and even eradicate voices with which they disagree. Political invective has become personal and ugly \u2014 even among friends.<\/p>\n<p>These challenges we face have been entrusted to us, this generation, by God. We have no reason to fear the difficulties we face because as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2+Timothy+1%3A7&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 Timothy 1:7<\/a> says, \u201cFor God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While there are many things that deserve Americans\u2019 attention, there is one topic that many political leaders are doing verbal gymnastics to avoid talking about. It\u2019s an\u00a0debate that has been, is, and will be a defining\u00a0issue\u00a0for our nation.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago next month, the Supreme Court reversed the calamitous 1973 abortion rulings that led to the taking of nearly 64 million lives. But what should have been the fulfillment of decades of effort to heal a blot on the Constitution and our national conscience has become a flashpoint of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In the past 23 months, tens of thousands of infants have been saved in pro-life states \u2014 but perhaps two million more have been lost as the Biden administration and the abortion industry have combined to end all pretense that abortion is about health care and begun promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-louisiana-votes-list-abortion-pills-controlled-substance-jail-time-convicted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do-it-yourself abortions<\/a> by mail.<\/p>\n<p>The Dobbs decision has given America a second chance, an opportunity to repent. The times call for a new campaign for life, but instead, we see sign after sign of a retreat among our fellow Republicans on this defining issue. And now, there are rumors and reports of an organized campaign to weaken or remove altogether from the GOP Ppatform language that insists every boy or girl in the womb has a right to life.<\/p>\n<p>Having written a large portion of the last two Republican Platforms and been elected to the upcoming platform committee, I am involved in those conversations, and I am hopeful we will end in the right place.<\/p>\n<p>But I want to be clear: The right to life transcends other political debates and the interests of any and all political parties and candidates. It is truly the right without which no other right has any meaning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Should the GOP refuse to back down on its pro-life stance?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In his last speech before his death on April 11, 1865, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abrahamlincolnonline.org\/lincoln\/speeches\/last.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a> said, \u201cImportant principles may, and must, be inflexible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t mistake my words as partisan. Advocates for the sanctity of human life want all political parties to embrace what our Founders declared as the first among the rights with which we are endowed by our Creator. On this, we are and must be inflexible.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for us to reflect on what one political party did right \u2014 and now risks getting completely wrong. And it is fitting to go back to the very beginning of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-backed-candidate-wins-house-special-election-california-adding-gops-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Old Party<\/a> nearly 170 years ago to understand the stakes that loom today.<\/p>\n<p>All of us are familiar with the high drama of the mid-19th century, the turmoil that would divide a nation. The focus of the debate was not at first slavery itself but the extension of slavery into the territories of a rapidly expanding nation. The times compelled America\u2019s representatives to take a stand. Many did so at odds with the political parties that brought them to office.<\/p>\n<p>One of them, Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot, was first elected as a Democrat in 1844. Two years later, he stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and offered what became known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/historycooperative.org\/wilmot-proviso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilmot Proviso<\/a>. The Proviso set the condition that no addition to U.S. territory resulting from the Mexican War would permit either \u201cslavery or involuntary servitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilmot_Proviso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewis Cass<\/a> replied with the idea that became known as popular sovereignty. He wrote of this idea to a colleague, \u201cLeave it to the people who will be affected by this question to adjust it upon their own responsibility, and in their own manner[.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This manner of dealing with a matter of profound and universal significance, leaving it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/abortion-just-states-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one segment of the public<\/a> or state to determine whether other men could be owned as property, should sound familiar to our ears right now.<\/p>\n<p>Thus was laid out the core debate between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, between the Democratic Party and the newly forming GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Wilmot re-emerged in time as a Republican. In 1856, the newly formed party met in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence. The Convention adopted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/republican-party-platform-1856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a platform<\/a> that tracked the text of the Declaration, then proceeded to make its applications clear.<\/p>\n<p>It said: \u201c[I]t is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism \u2014 Polygamy, and Slavery.\u201d Those twin relics of barbarism. From the very beginning, the Republican Party concerned itself with moral questions \u2014 and rejected the idea that these were merely matters for local debate and resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Four years later in Chicago, in May 1860, <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.niu.edu\/islandora\/object\/niu-lincoln%3A37432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilmot<\/a> was among the first to take the floor of the Republican Convention. Speaking of the reigning Democrats, he said, \u201cA great sectional and aristocratic party, or interest, has for years dominated with a high hand over the political affairs of this country. That interest has wrested, and is now wresting, all the great powers of this government to the one object of the extension and nationalization of slavery. It is our purpose, gentlemen, it is the mission of the Republican party and the basis of its organization, to resist this policy of a sectional interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilmot went on to cite the Constitution and hail the Revolutionary era, saying of the Founders: Had they thought that \u201cthey were called upon to endure the hazards, trials and sacrifices of that long and perilous contest for the purpose of establishing on this continent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tony-perkins-gop-must-never-retreat-on-pro-life-cause-2\/\" title=\"Tony Perkins: The GOP Should Always Uphold the Pro-Life Stance\">great slave empire<\/a>, not one of them would have drawn his sword in such a cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To the delegates gathered in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-apparently-tries-escape-reporters-refuses-answer-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windy City<\/a>, these were not mere catchphrases, tossed among the \u201creal issues\u201d of commerce and taxation. They were the embodiment of the ideals of Washington and Jefferson.<\/p>\n<p>They were the very reason the party existed. And the reason was no mere, to use Wilmot\u2019s expression, \u201csectional interest\u201d \u2014 it was the principle that all men are created equal and that governments exist to protect their unalienable rights.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we could spend hours discussing the history that followed these events in the 19th century. For my purposes, I will only note that our Republic developed rapidly in that era, and the direction was almost uniformly toward protecting fundamental, natural rights.<\/p>\n<p>The century saw the abolition of slavery and the adoption of three constitutional amendments to ensure its demise. The century saw the rise of the women\u2019s suffrage movement, events an ever-growing body of scholarship shows were led by women who decried abortion as the ultimate exploitation of women.<\/p>\n<p>The 19th century brought another band of progress: the great wave of states acting to protect the unborn child. These policies were advanced and adopted not by extremists, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/america-needs-jesus-tucker-carlson-sits-christian-nationalist-warned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian nationalists<\/a> or whatever the slurs of our day might furnish, but by the newly formed American Medical Association. These forces converged in proposing and ratifying the 14th Amendment in 1868.<\/p>\n<p>I urge us all to take a fresh look at the scholarship of people like <a href=\"https:\/\/robertpgeorge.com\/articles\/brief-of-john-finnis-and-robert-george-in-the-dobbs-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Robert George<\/a> at Princeton and John Finnis at Oxford. They persuasively argue that \u201c[T]he 14th Amendment\u2019s guarantees of due process and equal protection apply to human beings, as persons, at all developmental stages \u2014 pre-natal, as well as post-natal \u2014 and in all conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some might say, \u201cThis is well and good, Tony, but what has this got to do with the 21st century and the role of the parties and legislatures of our day?\u201d My answer is straightforward. It has everything to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s begin with the stark reality of the world as it revealed itself in the 20th century. For all the progress in science and technology \u2014 we can debate whether that includes the invention of the cell phone, the internet, and the \u201cBarbie\u201d movie \u2014 the 20th century was unparalleled in the development and use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/national-guard-troops-deployed-nyc-subway-amid-spate-heinous-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were two world wars, dozens of smaller conflicts, the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the development and dropping of two atomic bombs, the H-bomb and long-range nuclear missiles, the millions of victims of Stalin and Mao.<\/p>\n<p>There was also something new to humanity \u2014 the top-down imposition of coercive population control, beginning in China but spreading worldwide. If the Republicans were right about slavery, how should we respond to this latest manifestation of a dismissive view of human life?<\/p>\n<p>The start of the 21st century has seen the emergence of a related issue. Is it surprising that once man is free to end the life of a helpless child in the womb, then he will next turn to the weak, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disturbing-video-allegedly-shows-trans-person-chasing-elderly-woman-told-use-mens-bathroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elderly<\/a>, or vulnerable who are outside the womb?<\/p>\n<p>To find our way forward in the 21st century, we only need to look back to America\u2019s debates on slavery. The Democratic Party once embraced \u201cpopular sovereignty,\u201d which held that issues of profound significance, such as slavery, were private decisions for the plantation owner and his state.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans of those days passed the 13th Amendment, ending slavery; the 14th Amendment, providing that no state shall \u201cdeprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law\u201d or \u201cdeny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws\u201d; and the 15th Amendment, providing that the rights of citizens to vote shall not be \u201cdenied or abridged \u2026 on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That Democratic Party was wrong then. And its ideology of \u201cprivacy\u201d has been wrong for the past 50 years. To see abortion and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/actress-dies-assisted-suicide-revealing-persistent-neurological-condition-attributed-covid-booster-shot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assisted suicide<\/a> as merely matters of private conscience is a cynical misreading of American history and a threat to the foundations of our American Republic.<\/p>\n<p>I said at the outset that the life issue is not a partisan one. We would, of course, like to see the party of Lincoln stand firm on what it has held as a matter of principle since 1856.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d like to see it do so because it\u2019s the right thing to do, and the party\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-utah-law-requires-biological-dads-to-pay-pregnancy-support\/\" title=\"New Utah Law Requires Biological Dads To Pay Pregnancy Support\">pro-life position<\/a> has brought it more and more support from young people, African-Americans, and Latinos.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov\/library\/document\/platform\/rights.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first GOP Platform<\/a> to be written after Roe v. Wade in 1976, the Republicans took a stand that has remained to this day. Let me quote that platform verbatim:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe protest the Supreme Court\u2019s intrusion into the family structure through its denial of the parents\u2019 obligation and right to guide their minor children. The Republican Party favors a continuance of the public dialogue on abortion and supports the efforts of those who seek enactment of a constitutional amendment to restore protection of the right to life for unborn children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1980, the GOP took another and even bolder step. Ronald Reagan was engaged in a nip-and-tuck primary contest with George H.W. Bush. To salvage his campaign, Reagan sought to resolve a controversy over his signing of a liberal California abortion law in 1967 by sending a strong letter of commitment to pro-life leaders.<\/p>\n<p>They responded with endorsements, and Reagan marched to victory. Once again, Michigan was at the center of the drama. The action moved to Detroit, where a triumphant Reagan selected Bush as his running mate and crafted a platform built on the 1976 language, unifying the party.<\/p>\n<p>You know the rest of the story. Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter handily. Carter, for his part, was deeply uncomfortable with abortion and supported the Hyde Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/republican-party-platform-1984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1984 the GOP Platform<\/a> took another massive step forward, going beyond endorsing a constitutional amendment and actively asserting that the Constitution, properly understood, already protects unborn human life.<\/p>\n<p>It said, \u201cThe unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We therefore reaffirm our support for a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s protections apply to unborn children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From that point forward, the Republican Platform has not only consistently affirmed the unborn child\u2019s \u201cfundamental individual right to life,\u201d it has expanded its language to include issues from adoption and defunding of abortion providers to opposing cloning and supporting federal protections for infants born alive after induced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-rfk-jr-says-full-term-abortions-allowed-doesnt-want-leave-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, abortion has not stood alone in these platforms, because the issue is transcendent in other ways too. Attacks on human life have led to some of the most egregious assaults on the family and on religious freedom and conscience. To these the GOP has consistently said a vigorous \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the last four decades have now shown, when these principles are celebrated, the Grand Old Party prevails at the ballot box. When the messaging or the candidate deviates from these principles, failure is assured \u2014 look at the results in 1996, 2008, and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>What are we to think when Republican leaders suggest reconsidering the party\u2019s stance on the sanctity of human life, on constitutional protection for the unborn, and on a commitment that has lasted over half a century? That the Republican Platform, for the first time in half a century, may sound a retreat on this core principle?<\/p>\n<p>In such a situation, the alarm cannot be sounded too soon or too loud.<\/p>\n<p>We, champions of the God-given right to life, are under no illusions. The ravages of the Sexual Revolution are all around us. Today, we even debate whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ohio-legislature-defies-woke-governor-overrides-veto-bill-banning-transition-care-minors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mutilating the bodies of children<\/a> in vain attempts to change their sex is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on us.<\/p>\n<p>Under these circumstances, standing for the sanctity of each and every human life is hard. But, \u201cimportant principles may, and must, be inflexible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t dismiss this challenge, as ballot initiatives in various states have shown. All I can say is, we are not doing this for ourselves. We are seeking the protection of law and public policy for the most vulnerable among us, the unborn, and for their mothers, who either did not expect to be pregnant or did not expect the man in their lives to reject them when they got the news.<\/p>\n<p>Praying, standing, and voting for justice is always the hard road, the way of the cross.<\/p>\n<p>Justice is never won easily. The fight for justice is never time-limited. A single presidential election settles a country\u2019s policy for four years. But our nation\u2019s policy on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-weaponized-doj-targets-pro-life-activists-new-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right to life<\/a> is timeless. Like millions of conservative voters and activists, the issue of life is the issue above all others that drew me into the world of politics and policy three decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>To abandon it now, to adopt a platform that declares this issue of no national significance, that leaves the unborn completely exposed to dismemberment, cardiac injections, and poisoning in the womb, that sets the stage for a national policy of abortion on demand by a Democratic majority, would be a tragedy of historic proportions.<\/p>\n<p>After all is said and done, what is being asked of us? For me, it is no more than that we be faithful. To not fear, but to respond in the spirit of power, and of love and of the sound mind we\u2019ve been given.<\/p>\n<p>Being faithful is all that is being asked of us. Luke, the Great Physician, records Jesus\u2019s words, \u201cLet the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+18%3A16&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke 18:16<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s rededicate ourselves to this battle for true freedom \u2014 the freedom that celebrates life and refuses to destroy it. Over the next two months, this battle will play out over a single document, the national Republican Platform, but its object and prize are the soul of a nation.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s stir the spirit of the American people, of every party and persuasion, to rediscover the gift of life and our duty to uphold it in every sphere.<\/p>\n<p>My friends, we must be inflexible on this important principle of the sanctity of human life \u2014 the future depends upon it.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article appeared originally on <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Stand<\/a> and was adapted from a speech given at the 2024 Lincoln Day Dinner in Muskegon County, Michigan, on May 21.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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The Washington Stand is based in Washington, D.C. and is published by FRC, whose mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America is grappling with tremendous pressures, both domestically and overseas. The Ukrainian war presents a clear threat, potentially spilling over to NATO nations. Unprecedented volatility now characterizes the Middle East, unrivaled since Israel&#8217;s establishment 76 years ago. 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