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							<title><![CDATA[6 Months Since October 7, There Are No Winners Here]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/opinions/israel-gaza-6-months-october-7-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly six months ago, Israelis awoke to a nightmare. Civilians in the southern part of the country, areas near the border with Gaza, were under a brutal, ongoing attack. It would become the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust and a prelude to unspeakable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why New Hampshire Isn&rsquo;t Haley&rsquo;s Only Shot To Be GOP&rsquo;s Nominee]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/18/opinions/nikki-haley-donald-trump-2024-presidency-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a Republican presidential nomination contest that one might occasionally mistake for a normal race, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is facing what seems to be her do-or-die moment going into the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Biden Meets Xi, There&rsquo;s One Obstacle He Can&rsquo;t Overcome]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/opinions/biden-xi-meeting-obstacle-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Joe Biden meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in California on Wednesday, it will mark the first time in exactly one year and one day since the heads of the two nuclear-armed rivals have seen each other in person.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[UN Secretary General's Grievous Failure of Diplomacy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/opinions/un-antonio-guterres-israel-hamas-palestine-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How did it come to pass that the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s top diplomat, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, inadvertently sparked a diplomatic firestorm with his words?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who Will Be the Winner in This Terrible Conflict?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/13/opinions/israel-hamas-gaza-iran-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With every passing day, we learn ever more'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' horrifying details'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Hamas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has perpetrated against Israeli civilians since last Saturday. Now that our notion of what can happen in this troubled corner of the world has been shaken, proving that the inconceivable can become...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hamas&rsquo; Attack on Israel Is an Indisputable Act of Terrorism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/07/opinions/hamas-attack-israel-terrorism-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Millions of Israelis were jolted awake on Saturday by the sounds of explosions and blaring emergency sirens. The Palestinian group Hamas had launched an unprecedented assault on the country hours after the 50th anniversary of what Israelis call the Yom Kippur War and Arab countries call...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What America&rsquo;s Allies Think About a Potential Trump 2nd Term]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/opinions/trump-second-term-us-allies-foreign-policy-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, friends in the Netherlands asked me who I thought would win the 2024 US presidential election. They nodded placidly when I said I thought the odds favored President Joe Biden, but nearly jumped out of their seats when I said former President Donald Trump has a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Happened to Elon Musk?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/opinions/elon-musk-soros-conspiracy-theories-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, Elon Musk was a mysterious, intriguing and widely admired figure. That was back before he purchased Twitter and clasped his hands firmly on the wheel of the social media platform, boosting his influence and magnifying his voice, in the process revealing that the man behind the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is Poisoning Itself. This Is the Antidote]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/opinions/antisemitism-problem-growing-united-states-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Something started changing in the United States a few years ago. One could almost taste the air of hostility that started wafting across the country. Prejudices that in the past might have been expressed in private are regularly blasted on social media. Conspiracy theories can now be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zelensky&rsquo;s Powerful Message to Putin]]></title>
							<link>https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/21/opinions/volodymyr-zelensky-address-congress-putin-ghitis</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Members of the United States Congress, Republicans and Democrats, rose to their feet time and again Wednesday night, nearly drowning out'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in one emotional standing ovation after another. It was an extraordinary evening, concluding an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Fiery Speech Addressed the Elephant in the Room]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/02/opinions/biden-fiery-democracy-speech-ghitis</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis writes that in President Joe Biden's primetime address on Thursday, he made the difficult but necessary decision to speak an uncomfortable truth -- acknowledging the grave risk that MAGA Republicans pose to the future of US democracy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Warnings After Search of Trump's Home Make No Sense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/opinions/fbi-search-ominous-warnings-democracy-ghitis</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis writes that Donald Trump's most militant supporters, who are claiming the republic is under attack because of the FBI search of the former president's home, could not be more wrong. In strong democracies, no one is above the law -- including a former president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Political Turmoil Follow the Economic Hurricane?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/03/opinions/economic-aftershocks-pandemic-ukraine-political-turmoil-ghitis</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The worst of the pandemic may be over, but the economic aftershocks of the global crisis, made much worse by Russia's war against Ukraine, mean that a return to normalcy is nowhere in sight.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Does Ukraine Negotiate With a Liar?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/opinions/putin-lies-negotiations-ukraine-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That truth is the first casualty of war has become a clich'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('©').';', writes Frida Ghitis. But it didn't take a war for Putin's Russia to launch a stream of falsehoods and disinformation. The deceptions started decades ago and they never stopped. The war allowed the world to see it deployed in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Europe Trip Has Achieved One Key Goal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/opinions/biden-europe-trip-ukraine-russia-goal-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden's mission in Europe this week had one overarching purpose: prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from winning his war in Ukraine. And do it without triggering Putin's worst instincts, which could turn the war in Ukraine into the prelude to something even more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zelensky the One Leader Who Can Bring Americans Together]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/opinions/president-zelensky-stirring-ukraine-speech-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis writes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's speech to Congress on Wednesday, in addition to being emotionally searing and extraordinarily powerful, energized support for Ukraine's defense against Russian President Vladimir Putin's war machine and reverberated across...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia Has Tanks and Troops. Ukraine Has Zelensky]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/opinions/volodymyr-zelensky-ukraine-message-house-of-commons-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia has many tanks, troops and airplanes. But Ukraine has Zelensky. Frida Ghitis writes on how Ukraine's boyish-faced president with the stubble of war is rising to the occasion, most recently giving a speech evoking Shakespeare and Churchill to standing ovation in London's House of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Doesn't See His Presidency as a Failing Enterprise]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/opinions/joe-biden-first-year-in-office-news-conference-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you were expecting President Joe Biden to announce a major relaunch of his presidency during the press conference Wednesday marking his first year in office, you heard something quite different. His approval ratings have fallen, but Biden is not acting like a president who thinks he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Throws Down the Democracy Gauntlet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/opinions/president-biden-speech-democracy-warrior-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis writes that President Biden's speech on the anniversary of January 6 signaled a stark shift in his approach to the nation's ongoing crisis of democracy. The shift reflected a recognition that the insurrection of January 6 is not simply a part of the past, but a looming...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Crime Wave Tests Both Parties]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-americas-crime-wave-tests-both-parties/ar-AASda8j</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of the past two years -- and one that will come in handy in 2022 -- is that when problems are real, playing political games and twisting the truth does not help to solve them. That seemingly self-evident bit of wisdom, ignored with deadly results by the previous...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Ominous Signals Putin Is Sending]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/06/opinions/vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine-signals-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis writes if Russian President Vladimir Putin is allowed to advance his troops along the Ukrainian border without serious consequences, he will continue to escalate his foreign policy of bullying and intimidation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cure for Biden's Job Approval Woes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/opinions/biden-approval-infrastructure-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis writes President Joe Biden's low approval ratings have little to do with his policies, and everything to do with his lack of selling his successes to the American people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Passing Biden's Legislative Agenda Will Boost His Standing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/opinions/biden-was-relaxed-funny-but-needs-win-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden is facing the most difficult period of his still-young presidency, but you wouldn't have known it watching the relaxed, optimistic, joke-cracking politician who took questions at the CNN town hall on Thursday night.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Scary Portrait of Life Inside Trump's White House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/30/opinions/trump-white-house-stephanie-grisham-book-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The indelible image that emerges via experts from Stephanie Grisham's book, the latest tell-all about the Trump White House, is of a President plagued by insecurities and unmoored from morality, writes Frida Ghitis. It's an amusing retrospective of a bizarre presidency, but is also a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Must Work Together to Help Biden Succeed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/24/opinions/congress-democrats-donald-trump-2024-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis writes that the Democrats in Congress battling over the size of the reconciliation measure are missing the larger picture. Instead of working together to ensure Biden succeeds as president, they are refusing to budge from their positions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trump Brand of Politics Is Spreading Around the World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/opinions/trumpism-politics-global-impact-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Maybe this is a source of pride for former President Donald Trump. But for the rest of the world, seeing America's recent political turmoil emulated in nations from east to west is something else entirely. The example set by Trump -- disparaging, assaulting and undercutting a country's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Biden Is a Man in a Hurry]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/02/opinions/joe-biden-is-a-man-in-a-hurry-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over 70 days into Biden's presidency, Frida Ghitis writes that the President has moved swiftly to achieve major goals]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A President Who Doesn't Insult People -- Or Our Intelligence]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/25/opinions/biden-news-conference-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His first conference was not just a startling departure from his predecessor's -- he didn't praise himself, and spoke in full, coherent and informed sentences -- it was a strong, nuanced performance by any standard, writes Frida Ghitis. For most Americans, who approve of the job Biden is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Biden Leaves Trump's Dystopia in the Dust]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/12/opinions/joe-biden-primetime-address-covid-19-relief-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If you were expecting President Joe Biden to take a victory lap, to boast about his remarkable achievements in just 50 days in office, it's understandable. After four years of the former president, many of us became accustomed to self-serving rhetoric. But Biden's first prime-time...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Trump Impeachment Trial Is Crucial]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/opinions/trump-impeachment-trial-crucial-opinion-ghitis/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Frida Ghitis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Frida Ghitis writes that Donald Trump's impeachment trial will help establish the record of fact for when willingness to face the truth arrives.]]></description>
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