Jerusalem: Israelis, Palestinians in Deadlock Over Site – TIME

Posted by Matt in December 7th, 2009 | no comment

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On the face of it, the project sounds innocent enough: Since the early 1990s, the Israeli organization Elad has been rehabilitating the City of David, a once neglected area nestled at the foot of the southern walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. The site is believed to have been the seat of power of the kingdom [...]

Never Again? | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in December 2nd, 2009 | no comment

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What the Holocaust can’t teach us about modern-day genocide.
From March 1942 to late 1944, Birkenau was the largest factory of mass murder in wartime Europe. Every day, trains arrived carrying thousands of people — mostly Jews, but also Poles, Roma, and others — and apart from a limited number deemed fit for slave labor, they [...]

The Fall of Mexico – The Atlantic (December 2009)

Posted by Matt in November 23rd, 2009 | no comment

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In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered. Some 14,000 people have been killed in that time—the worst carnage since the [...]