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Bring
Danny Home!

The Detroit Jewish News 
urges the community to 
continue raising awareness 
for Huntington Woods native 
Danny Fenster — a journalist 
who has been unjustly held 
without cause and without 
specified charges for
144 days

by a military regime in 
a gruesome prison in 
Myanmar (Burma).

The family is looking for people 
to create portraits of Danny that 
can be shared on social media at 
https://bringdannyhome.com/pages/gallery.

You can also support Danny at: 
BringDannyHome.com 
fenster-verse.tumblr.com 
facebook.com/groups/1164768597279223.

Journalist Danny Fenster in Detroit in 2018.

(See a related story on page 22.)

military presence in that 
country was an unbearable 
burden.
This brings us to 
President Biden who, in his 
address to UNGA, insisted 
that unconditionally 
surrendering to the 
terrorist organization 
that hosted Al-Qaeda 
on Sept. 11, 2001, and 
which remains Al-Qaeda’s 
strategic partner, closed “a 
period of relentless war”— 
notwithstanding statements 
to the contrary made under 
oath to Congress by his top 
military advisers.
He boasted that he had 
opened “a new era of 
relentless diplomacy”— 
whatever that might mean. 
He said he has “prioritized 
rebuilding our alliances,” 
ignoring the fact that the 
French government, feeling 
slighted by him, had just 
days before withdrawn its 
ambassador to the United 
States for the first time ever.
He announced his 
intention to turn “our focus 
to the priorities and the 
regions of the world, like 
the Indo-Pacific.” When he 
came into office, the United 
States had one significant 
base in the Indo-Pacific: at 
Bagram in Afghanistan. He 
abandoned it.
He patted himself on 
the back for “reengaging” 
with the World Health 
Organization and the 
U.N. Human Rights 
Council. Neither of those 
dysfunctional organizations 
has initiated any 
meaningful reforms.

While giving shout-outs 
to “proud Moldovans” 
and “the young people of 
Zambia,” he said not a word 
about Hong Kong, where 
longstanding freedoms 
have been erased by Beijing 
in violation of its treaty 
obligations. Nor did he 
mention Beijing’s escalating 
threats to the Taiwanese.
So, what was achieved at 
the 76th Session of UNGA? 
I’d say nothing. To my 
surprise, two influential 
political commentators 
(who moonlight as 
comedians) appeared to 
agree. 
Jimmy Fallon said: “Next, 
the U.N. is gonna be, like, 
‘We believe further conflict 
with the Taliban will be 
avoided thanks to our latest 
pinkie promise.’”
And Trevor Noah noted: 
“BTS gave a speech and 
filmed a music video from 
inside U.N. headquarters. 
Completely real. Yeah. 
Old people were probably 
watching this, like, 
‘What the hell is a BTS?’ 
And young people were 
watching it, like, ‘What the 
hell is the U.N.?’”
Full disclosure: I’m one 
of those old people. But I’ve 
done my research, so I now 
know that BTS is a K-Pop 
sensation. If you don’t know 
what a “K-Pop sensation” is, 
you must be really old. 

Clifford D. May is the founder and 

president of the Foundation for 

Defense of Democracies (FDD), 

and a columnist for the Washington 

Times. 

