The World and Everything in It: February 20, 2024

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning! Vladimir Putin’s loudest critic comes to a shocking end, but it was one Alexei Navalny saw coming.

ALEXEI NAVALNY: I think for Putin why he's using this chemical weapon, to kill me and you know terrify others.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Also, the push to bring cursive writing back into the classroom. And a man who finds international missions opportunities in his own hometown.

NEIL HAWTHORN: You’ve got a world at your doorstep.

And WORLD commentator Brad Littlejohn on what many people say about the observable decline in the president’s health.

REICHARD: It’s Tuesday, February 20th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now news. Here’s Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Navalny reaction » President Biden says Russia and Vladimir Putin must be held accountable for the death of opposition leader Alexei Nalvany.

BIDEN: We already have sanctions and we'll be considering additional sanctions, yes.

Navalny died last week at an Arctic prison camp. And the Russian government has denied his family access to his remains.

The European Union is also considering more sanctions against Moscow, and EU Representative Josep Borrell paid tribute to Navalny …

BORRELL: In order to honor his memory, we propose the ministers to rename our human rights sanctions regime with his name and call it the Navalny human rights sanctions regime.

Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya says Putin was behind her husband’s death. And she vowed to continue her his work to expose corruption in Russia.

ZELENSKYY: [Speaking Ukrainian]

Ukraine funding » Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed once again to Western leaders for more military aid.

ZELENSKYY: [Speaking Ukrainian]

He said the situation is extremely difficult at several points of the frontline, where Russia is concentrating its troops and taking advantage of Ukraine’s shortage of ammunition.

On Capitol Hill, GOP Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick, the co-chair of the Ukraine caucus said he’s confident that lawmakers will get Ukraine funding through Congress.

FITZPATRICK: We have a compromise bill in the House, Democrats and Republicans, unified together - that we're going to demand a vote, get it to the Senate and get this done.

Fitzpatrick referring to a new bill in the House — a counter-proposal to a recent Senate bill. It would fund military aid to Ukraine and other allies while shelving the economic and humanitarian aid the Senate included in its bill.

The House proposal also calls for the return of the Trump-era Remain in Mexico border policy.

U.S.-UN resolution / Rafah » Israel has issued an ultimatum to Hamas leaders. War cabinet minister Benny Gantz:

GANTZ: If by Ramadan hostages are not home, the fighting will continue everywhere to include Rafah area.

Ramadan is less than a month away.

Israeli leaders are planning a major offensive in the southern Gazan city of Rafah which they call the last Hamas stronghold. That’s despite international pressure not to invade the city amid a humanitarian crisis in southern Gaza. But Gantz added:

GANTZ: We will do so in a coordinated manner, facilitating the evacuation of civilians to minimize the civilian casualties as much as possible.

At the UN Security Council, The United States has circulated a resolution that would support a temporary cease-fire in Gaza. The U.S. resolution would underscore that a temporary cease-fire “as soon as practicable” requires Hamas to release all hostages.

The U.S. introduced the draft after rejecting an Arab-backed resolution demanding an immediate pause in the fighting.

Israel/Palestine ICJ » Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al-Maliki is asking the UN’s International Court of Justice to declare settlements of Israelis in some disputed territories to be illegal.

AL-MALIKI: The only solution consistent with international law is for this illegal occupation to come to an immediate, unconditional, and total end. 

Palestinian officials want that land to establish an independent state.

This is day-two of six days of hearings at The Hague in the Netherlands. Israel is not arguing its case before court, saying it does not recognize the legitimacy of this trial.

Houthis » The U.S. military blasted more Houthi rebel targets in and around Yemen as the U.S. Navy confronts a new threat in the region. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has more.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: One of the targets U.S. forces destroyed was an unmanned submarine effectively, an underwater drone. It was the first time the Iran-backed terror group has deployed this technology since it started attacking commercial ships in the region back in November.

The unmanned subs, likely supplied by Iran, could be tougher to detect and destroy than aerial drones and missiles.

That presents a new threat and challenge to the navies of the U.S. and its allies trying to safeguard the critical shipping lane from Houthi attacks.

Meantime, the crew of a British-owned shipping vessel had to abandon ship after their vessel was struck by a Houthi missile.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

California Winter Storm » Another winter storm is battering California today dropping heavy snow in higher elevations and torrential rain elsewhere.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in some areas.

Marc Chenard with the National Weather Service:

CHENARD: Most significant flooding potential is actually bound for Southern California. Could be looking at some significant flooding with several inches of rain.

The storm is expected to move through quicker than the devastating atmospheric river … that parked itself over Southern California earlier this month.

I’m Kent Covington. 

Straight ahead: the life and death of Alexei Navalny. Plus, doing missions where God plants you.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Tuesday the 20th of February, 2024.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Up first: the death of a Russian dissident. On Friday, Russian authorities announced that opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison after, they say, Navalny felt unwell coming back from a walk.

YULIA NAVALNY: [Speaking in Russian]

REICHARD: Navalny’s wife Yulia in a video released on Monday. She says Russian authorities have refused to release her husband’s body because they want to cover up the cause, what she suspects as another poisoning.

Navalny was previously targeted with a military-grade poison that put him in the hospital for a month.

Here is Navalny on 60 Minutes back in 2020, while receiving treatment in Germany before his return to Russia.

ALEXEI NAVALNY: I think for Putin why he's using this chemical weapon, to do both: kill me and you know terrify others.

EICHER: Joining us now to talk about Navalny’s life and death is Will Inboden. He served on the National Security Council under President George W. Bush. He is now a professor at the University of Florida. He’s also a regular contributor to World Opinions.

REICHARD: Will, good morning.

WILL INBODEN: Great to be with you.

REICHARD: Will, what was your first thought when you heard the news on Friday that Russian authorities reported that Alexei Navalny was dead at age 47?

INBODEN: I would say I was shocked but not surprised. Shocked in that it is appalling that Putin and the Russian state would take this step of you know, it seems very clear that he was murdered in prison. We don't know the exact means, but a day or two earlier he'd been, you know, videoed in reasonably good health. And Putin has a history of assassinating or executing or, you know, otherwise putting to death his political opponents. So in that sense, it was it was a shock that it did come to this but but not a surprise, and that this has been Putin's pattern.

REICHARD: The timing of Navalny’s death is significant. We’re now just days away from the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Last year, the story was that Ukraine was surviving and pushing Russia back with Western help. Now Russia is slowly moving forward, and Putin has silenced his opponents. First it was Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, and now, Alexei Navalny. What does that tell you about Vladimir Putin’s strength in 2024?

INBODEN: Yeah, so it's a paradox where on the one hand, he is a "strong" leader in that he is eliminating his opponents and criticism and still, you know, pushing forward with his aggression in Ukraine and you know, the things that he wants. And he'll, you know, with the upcoming election, he'll almost surely, “win,” because he controls the ballot box since he's the only person, only person running. But it shows a certain weakness and that he cannot even abide or tolerate any criticism or dissent. And, yes, you know, Russia has stopped Ukraine's progress on the battlefield and is even starting to make some incremental gains and the Russian forces recently recaptured a reasonably important Ukrainian city. But again, it's come at a tremendous cost to Russia, right? Over, we don't know the exact numbers, but over 300,000 Russian troops dead or wounded casualties in the war, huge damage to the Russian economy. This is why so many Russians live in horrible poverty, as you know, Putin has really bankrupted their country in a lot of ways through his own personal corruption and through perpetrating this war. And so I think with the anniversary of the war coming up, with the elections coming up, with the recent past weekend Munich security conference in Germany—bringing together all the transatlantic leaders, many of whom have been resisting Putin's aggression in Ukraine—Putin seemed to decide that now is the time to make the move and eliminate his most prominent critic in Alexei Navalny.

REICHARD: In your WORLD Opinions column, you wrote that “Navalny’s murder should put to rest the perverse affection for Putin voiced by some on the political right.” What do you mean by that?

INBODEN: Yeah, you know, there have been some voices on the American political right—I wouldn't really even call them traditional conservatives, but you know, Tucker Carlson would exemplify this—who have had this, I think, you know, strange affection for Putin in recent years. Putin very cynically plays to this. He likes to posit himself as a social conservative defending traditional Christian values and say, you know, traditional marriage. 

But I think when we look closer, it also needs to be seen that he's a, you know, a brutal despot who hates America and hates the free world. You know, he presides over one of the highest abortion rates in the world, you know, so he's certainly not a social conservative in that respect. You know, other tyrants around the world, the leaders of Hamas, the leaders of North Korea, the leaders of Iran, you know, they're sworn enemies of America. They would claim to be traditional social conservatives, too. And so even if they may have an agreement with social conservatives on one or two areas, doesn't mean, I think, that we should give them our affection or our support, and I think Tucker Carlson really erred in that. And he, you know, in the last week or two has been kind of cynically used by Putin as almost a Kremlin propagandist. And I think he has really beclowned himself there, especially when Tucker initially seemed to kind of, you know, justify the killing of Navalny by saying, “Well, leaders just kill people.” We know that's not the standard that we have an order that we should accept.

REICHARD: Before we go, let’s turn to the war in Gaza.

Israeli forces are closing in on Hamas’s final strongholds in Southern Gaza. Along the way they’ve freed a couple of hostages and exposed more of Hamas’s underground terror network. That includes a facility underneath the Gaza City headquarters of the UN Palestinian refugee agency known as UNRWA.

Now, agency leaders deny any link with Hamas, but when your building has power cables running down into a military compound, well, the evidence just says otherwise.

Here’s the problem: UNRWA provides most of Gaza’s societal infrastructure, so if it comes undone, the community cannot operate. And yet, U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken has said that one of the United States’ goals for the end of the conflict is for Israel to allow the creation of a Palestinian state. What do you make of that objective, given all that we know now about UNRWA?

INBODEN: I have a lot to say here. I'll try to keep it brief. I mean, the first is that many of us have suspected for some time or seen glimmers of evidence about this corruption of UNRWA, whether, you know, little corruption in terms of, you know, misallocation of resources, or deeper corruption of allowing, you know, Hamas militants to be employees there. As well as Hamas to set up, you know, an underground leadership command and control bunker underneath UNRWA’s headquarters. And so this is a long overdue reckoning and exposure of, like I said, some of UNRWA's corruptions there. But we also do have to remember that for there to be any viable, you know, future for security and peace for Israel, there needs to be some better pathway of life for the many Palestinians who aren't terrorists, right? And so that's the big puzzle here is how do we disentangle the terrorist elements from the Palestinian population from the more peace-loving ones who would want a better path forward. On a Palestinian state, I don't see any realistic possibility of that anytime soon. You don't have any of the preconditions for a state and you have too many of them who are sworn to Israel's destruction. But I have some sympathy for at least saying that, aspirationally, we hope that somewhere down the line, there can be the creation of a Palestinian state, to at least keep that hope alive. But just be clear that there's a lot of difficult hard steps that would need to be taken between now and then to get there, beginning with substantial reform of the UN and UNRWA.

REICHARD: Will Inboden is a former member of the National Security Council and a current professor at the University of Florida. Will, thanks for your time.

INBODEN: Thank you, Mary. Great to be with you.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: handwriting in cursive.

Before the internet age, learning to write in cursive was a rite of passage in elementary school. Not one I remember fondly.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: I never learned how to make a cursive capital “s.” Well, computers and tablets haven’t finished off handwriting as many expected. Last month, schools in California started teaching cursive again. And more recently, Indiana’s Senate passed a bill to require it.

Here’s state Senator Jean Leising talking to the Indianapolis Star:

JEAN LEISING: Many kids only know how to print their first name and they can't sign their name and to be honest they can't spell.

EICHER: Because cursive doesn’t come with spell check.

WORLD’s Lillian Hamman has the story.

PAMELA KELLER: What do you think the letter is?

STUDENTS: W!

Pamela Keller forms the flowing loops of cursive letters on her classroom whiteboard. She’s teaching at Orangethorpe Elementary School in Fullerton, California. Her students look up at her writing, and back down at their papers as they try to copy the letters in their own hands.

KELLER: And then just do it really light. I’m holding it gently and letting it flow over the paper.

In 2010, lawmakers and educators erased cursive from the Common Core curriculum requirements. Critics say students should spend time learning more modern skills like coding and typing as society depends more on technology. But growing support for the developmental and practical benefits of cursive is changing the minds of lawmakers.

ANCHOR 1: A new instruction topic awaits a new generation of California students. Cursive is making a comeback.

ANCHOR 2: A Michigan congresswoman has written a bill that would encourage school districts throughout the state to reconsider how they teach kids to write.

According to mycursive.com, 23 states currently require students to learn how to write in cursive between first and sixth grade. About a quarter of those states were added between 2018 and 2019, and at least five more have introduced legislation considering it.

So are lawmakers just trying to make sure the next generation can sign legislation, and contracts? Or is there something more going on here?

ZOROYA: You're using different neural networks when you're doing cursive rather than printing and so it's creating those pathways in your brain.

That’s Leslie Zoroya from the Los Angeles county office of education. She says the neurological pathways channeled specifically in how cursive letters are formed helps with retaining information.

ZOROYA: As you're creating the letter you're thinking about what is the sound that that letter makes and how does it connect to the next letter and what are those two sounds together?

Supporters also say that students who aren’t taught cursive can’t read important historical documents written in cursive like the Constitution, or records from their own family ancestries. While AI can translate many of these documents, historian and former Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust warns that if we can’t read history as it was written, we can’t control our understanding of it.

FAUST: When we can't read documents from the past, then the past is presented to us indirectly. I mean just imagine if you had some kind of contract that you had signed, and you couldn't read it. And someone told you well, this is what's in the contract…and then later you might find out it was something else. So there are limits in your power, in your sense of, of how the world works, and your sense of how the world used to work when you can't have access to a means of communication.

Faust also points out that reading documents written in cursive provides a tangible connection to the past in ways technology doesn’t.

FAUST: We today are thrilled to get signatures from people, we stand in line outside rock concerts and World Series games because that piece of paper says this person touched this paper, this person is linked to me through this paper.

How cursive will be taught will mostly be left up to the school districts to decide. Some will have to train teachers who weren’t required to learn it themselves. California teacher Pamela Keller is encouraged to see her students rising to the challenge of learning something new.

KELLER: A lot of my students will say “Oh, it’s too hard to write in cursive.” And so we tell them, “Well, it's going to make you smarter. It's going to help you move to the next level.” And then they get excited, because students want to be the top dog in the class.

That challenge has now become the reward for students like 11-year old Milo Chang.

MILO CHANG: I really think it helps like my handwriting too. If you’re doing something harder, you’ll probably get better at the easier version too.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Lillian Hamman.

NICK EICHER, HOST: You think you’ve had indigestion?

Consider this one. An alligator at a zoo in Omaha, Nebraska last week must’ve had quite a tummy ache when he swallowed some no-calorie substance.

CHRISTINA PLOOG: Then we were able to identify them as coins, and we removed 70 coins from his stomach yesterday.

Zoo vet Christina Ploog explained he wasn’t able to make change. They just stayed in, and it took surgery to get them out. Ten other gators will likely have the same experience.

Now the coins are not part of the diet, and zoo patron Jordan McCarthy understands this. He hopes to let his fellow humans know, stop throwing coins! Come on, people. Audio from Newswatch 7 Omaha:

JORDAN MCCARTHY: I think the zoo does a great job of keeping us protected from the animals. But unfortunately, I think there's only so much they can do to protect the animals from us sometimes.

A different kind of gator aid!

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I imagine much appreciated.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, February 20th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: international missions work, from home.

Some people may think of overseas missions as the Gold Standard of gospel ministry. But it’s just one option to share the good news.

REICHARD: One man in Australia found opportunities right outside his door. WORLD correspondent Amy Lewis has the story.

MAN: I just met him but we already get off like we already knew each other.

AMY LEWIS: Two men sit on a low couch just inside the doors of Lygon Street Christian Chapel’s back hall. One is a man recently arrived from Papua New Guinea. He’s talking with Neil Hawthorn whose blue cane leans against the arm of the couch.

AUDIO: [People talking]

About 30 international university students and young adults straggle into the hall for a meeting of the Carlton Gospel Fellowship or CGF. They sit around tables where compact butane stoves heat pots of water. It’s to celebrate the beginning of the semester and Lunar New Year’s Eve.

STUDENT: This one is [Chinese words]. Good luck and great prosperity…Ok, now the spices. [Chinese words]

Even though he’s twice their age and then some, Hawthorn is a regular with this group of twenty-somethings. They come from places like Myanmar, Brunei, Singapore, and China. In fact, many of them came to this meeting because he invited them. 

Like Abby Gill. She’s from Malaysia.

ABBY GILL: Neil did, he introduced me to this church. So I came. And then I also went for the Sunday service here as well.

In high school, Hawthorn wanted to go overseas as a missionary. He applied for a librarian position with an organization in South Korea. They asked if he had any medical situations.

NEIL HAWTHORN: And I said, “I've got epilepsy.” And with that they said, “I'm sorry, we don't take anybody with epilepsy. Interview has finished.”

Back in 1967, the doctor’s thought he would be stillborn after he suffered gross placental insufficiency in utero.

But he survived. Even when the NICU nurses needed his bed for a more viable infant and removed him from life support. His mother loved to remind him of his life’s mission.

HAWTHORN: Give you back to the Lord as Hannah did to Samuel because I wasn't supposed to survive. And all through my teenage years until her death she would tell me, “You must serve the Lord because God answered my prayer.”

Today, he’s resistant to his epilepsy medication. He wears a black magnetic snap on the left side of his head. It monitors his brain—and alerts him to upcoming seizures.

For decades Hawthorn lived with his aunt in the heart of Melbourne, near lots of colleges that attract overseas students.

HAWTHORN: See, you’ve got the world at your doorstep, like I’ve got RMIT and Melbourne Uni at my doorstep.

He and his aunt met and invited international students to their home for English tutoring sessions and weekly meals. But they gave the students more than pasta and sausages.

HAWTHORN: And once they're here, and finished, they're gonna go home most likely, and we can't get in there. We don't know their language. Get them to Lord, and build them up, then send them back.

One newly arrived Korean student told a waiter at a Japanese restaurant that he was lonely.

HAWTHORN: She wrote down this address and said, “You go down Thursday night. You'll have friends.” We don't know who the waiter was, or anything.

Back home, Hawthorn leafs through a full brown scrapbook. It’s just a snapshot of the decades of international student dinners that ended with COVID and his aunt’s death.

HAWTHORN: He's Vietnamese, Edward. He became a Christian here. And he is still in contact with me from Vietnam. Yeah, this was the one who went to the restaurant and didn't know anybody and brought his friends along.

Neil regularly prays through his phone’s contact list.

HAWTHORN: I keep in contact with all students who go back to their home countries, because I believed our ministry doesn't stop at the Melbourne airport.

Even though the missions group rejected him, he’s been to South Korea.

HAWTHORN: I’ve been to China seven times, I’ve been to Taiwan 3 or 4 times. Singapore and Malaysia many times. In fact, I’ve been more to Singapore and Malaysia than I’ve been to Sydney.

He visits students in their homes.

HAWTHORN: That's why I go overseas, visit them, their families, their church, see what the church is like. And I have found that has broken down many walls with later students. They go, “You have been to my city?” Then they accept me straight away.

One student asked Hawthorn to pray that he would know God’s guidance in how to serve him.

HATHORN: And when I go to Asia, I meet up with him to see how he's doing. He's now a deacon in his church. And I think that he might have had it in his mind that he had to go, like, go to Africa or off somewhere.

He was able to tell the student what his dad told him after the mission group rejected him.

HAWTHORN: Where you are. That's where God wants you.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Amy Lewis in Melbourne, Australia.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Tuesday, February 20th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Up next: President Biden’s mental fitness.

WORLD Opinions commentator Brad Littlejohn says the Bible calls us to honor our elders … and that includes acknowledging limitations.

BRAD LITTLEJOHN: Talk about a Pyrrhic victory. When Special Counsel Robert Hur announced that he would not prosecute President Joe Biden for his mishandling of classified documents, Democrats were not exactly taking a victory lap. They were in full damage-control mode over the report’s conclusion that Biden was not guilty because he did not have the mental clarity to be guilty.

What’s most telling, though, is the defense that many on the left have adopted– denouncing Hur or anyone who echoes his conclusions as purveyors of “ageism.” What, you may ask, is “ageism”?

A recent addition to the pantheon of prejudices, ageism refers to “prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of a person’s age.” And to be sure, ageism names a real problem. Leviticus admonishes,“Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.” Our modern society violates this injunction constantly and not just by sniggering at the mental lapses of an aging statesman. When we pretend that aging is something shameful to be masked by Botox and surgeries, or when we hide the elderly away in nursing homes to be cared for by underpaid nurses, we dishonor the hoary head.

The fashionable denunciation of “ageism” is even worse. “Prejudice” may be bad by definition, but “discrimination”? Are we really not supposed to discriminate on the basis of someone’s age? Are 10-year-olds or 90-year-olds as safe behind the wheel of a car as 30-year-olds? The fact is that age and aging are real—our bodies really do grow and strengthen, and then, eventually, weaken and wither. Our minds mature and sharpen, and then, at last, often begin to fade into forgetfulness.

There is no shame in this, but it makes sense that progressives cannot accept this reality.

For decades now progressives have been committed to the abolition of man’s natural limitations, treating our bodies as Play-Doh to be molded according to our desires. Nature is often too stubborn to yield, and so we engage in make-believe: pretending that an unborn child is a parasitical, unfeeling “fetus”; pretending that two men can start a family together; pretending that a male athlete can be a female swimming champion.

So too with age. Confronted with the unyielding tendency of our bodies to get achy, shaky, and wrinkly, and of our minds to get foggy, we can respond in one of two ways. We may remember that we, too, are not invincible, but will one day weaken and die. We may recognize the aged as among the “least of these” that we are called to cherish and care for, and we may honor the hoary head for the wisdom and tradition they continue to embody.

Or else we may shut our eyes and clinch our fists against the reality of impending death and its early warning signs of shaking limbs and mental lapses. We may lie through gritted teeth and say, “80 is the new 50!” But reality always has the last laugh.

I’m Brad Littlejohn.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: on Washington Wednesday, South Carolina’s Republican primary is coming up just a few days from now. We’ll talk about it. And, an unlikely friendship in the face of suffering. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

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