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...effectively retired on Dec. 31, while about 4,000 more will exit in February. Several thousand more departures are expected in March. The retirees will not be replaced. These reductions are accelerating a trend: before they began, there were already 100,000 fewer postal workers than there were about seven years ago, with automated sorting technology picking up much of the slack. Meanwhile, part-time employees will be limited to working fewer hours, temp hiring will be cut back, and contract employees may be eliminated altogether...
...people of Gaza, Hamas steals medicine and food from the people for use by its militants. Indeed, Israel ought to be held to a higher standard, but the staff’s argument today ignores the plight of those who have lived under constant rocket fire for the past seven years...
...Crimson Staff now joins many around the world in condemning Israel’s delayed response to seven years of continuous rocket fire from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Yet, tellingly, this opinion offers no solutions, no alternatives, no suggestions for how a sovereign nation ought to respond when missiles are launched at its citizens. In fact, there were seven years of missiles before Israel’s operation began; 8,250 missiles and mortar rounds had fallen on communities within a 20 kilometer range of Gaza. While some might say that firing 8,250 rockets and mortars at civilians...
...mass migration of Israelis from their homes to avoid the murderous rain of rockets falling daily from the sky. Civilian deaths are horrible and tragic, but to suggest that death ought to be the only measure of “proportionality” ignores the fact that, for seven years, Israeli civilians have lived under the constant terror of rocket fire...
...keeping America safe after the atrocities of 9/11: "More than seven years have passed without another attack on our soil. This is not for lack of trying on the part of the terrorists. Since 9/11, the United States and our allies have stopped deadly terrorist plots, including a 2002 plot to hijack an airplane and fly it into the tallest skyscraper in Los Angeles, a 2003 plot to hijack and crash multiple planes into targets on the East Coast, and a 2006 plot to blow up multiple passenger jets traveling from London...