Innholdsfortegnelse for April 19, 2024 i Newsweek

1983 “Fewer than 14 percent of AIDS victims have survived more than three years after being diagnosed, and no victim has recovered fully,” Newsweek reported during the epidemic. AIDS, caused by severe HIV, has no official cure. However, today’s treatment options significantly slow the HIV virus’ effects within six months, substantially reducing both infection and fatality rates. According to the CDC, nearly 1.2 million Americans were living with HIV in 2021, with more than 36,000 people diagnosed that year. Annually, the U.S. government spends $20 billion for HIV prevention and care. 1977 “Major (energy) savings can also be achieved by changing the nation’s driving habits—another prime target of the Carter package,” Newsweek wrote. Electric vehicle registrations have surged, with more than 2.44 million registered in the U.S. in 2022. California…

Periscope NEWS, OPINION + ANALYSISISRAEL-HAMAS WAR WHEN SHAY BENJAMIN’S FATHER RON WENT MISS-ing on October 7, she cried for 15 hours straight. She was in Dubai, returning from a vacation in the Philippines, when a flurry of cellphone messages alerted her to the unfolding events in Israel on October 7 last year. A keen sportsman, Ron, 53, from Rehovot, had gone that morning for a group bicycle ride by the Gaza border, near Kibbutz Be’eri. The cascade of rockets he heard above him prompted him to leave a voice message for his daughter at around 6:30 a.m. to say that he was fine but would head back home. “I was a bit scared but I thought it’s just another round of missiles and rockets—unfortunately we are used to that in…

Periscope OPINION U.S. TROOPS SHOULD REMAIN IN PLACE by JOHN FENZEL FEW PEOPLE TODAY RECOGNIZE the name of Alois Brunner. As the right hand of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, he was one of the most notorious figures of the Holocaust, responsible for the deaths of an estimated 130,000 Jews in extermination camps. For the family members whose lives he shattered, Brunner is an indelible symbol of the Holocaust’s horror. His deliberate actions aimed to erase an entire people and their heritage. Certainly, we would assume, he was held to answer for his crimes. The answer might surprise you. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, instead of facing retribution, Brunner found asylum in Syria, living as Dr. Georg Fischer. Syrian Presidents Hafez al-Assad and then his son, Bashar al-Assad, provided protection…

IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS SINGING THE PRAISES of ABC’s Abbott Elementary, fear not, they’ve heard you. “We love to hear it,” says Chris Perfetti, who plays Jacob Hill on the Emmy-winning sitcom about teachers at a Philadelphia public school. As for the show’s success, “it’s everything I’ve dreamt of as an actor.” For Perfetti, finding how to play Jacob didn’t start with studying teachers. “At the end of the day, they’re just human beings and teaching is their job.” Now in its third season, Perfetti says you will be seeing a new side of Jacob, but not to worry, he “will by no means stop putting his foot in his mouth or tripping over his words or over furniture for that matter.” The show is the…

PeriscopeISRAEL-HAMAS WAR ISRAEL HAS UNDOUBTEDLY WEAK-ened Hamas after six months of fighting in Gaza, but the short-term tactical gains against the group behind the October 7 attack may come at a significant cost to Israel’s long-term security, as well as complicating potential postwar efforts to resolve one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. The Israel Defense Forces have killed thousands of Hamas fighters and seized critical military infrastructure, reducing the group’s ability to launch future attacks. But Israel’s actions in Gaza have led to accusations of genocide in an international court, have distanced the country from its closest ally, the United States, and have damaged chances of securing a lasting peace. “Israel is being sent before the International Court of Justice and condemned by the U.N. And, most important of…

AFTER SIX MONTHS OF WAR between Israel and Hamas, a question hangs not only over the fate of the devastated Gaza Strip, but also over the leadership of the millions of Palestinians and their aspirations for statehood. Hamas, which is committed to destroying Israel and which triggered the conflict with its unprecedented October 7 attack, holds a lead in opinion polls. But the Israeli leadership has said it will not relent until it has broken the Islamist faction, which the U.S. also sees as a terrorist group. Hamas’ main rival is largely secular Fatah, which leads the Palestinian National Authority that runs fragments of the Israeli-occupied West Bank under 30-year-old accords and has U.S. support to run Gaza after the war. But the conflict has only deepened Fatah’s legitimacy crisis…