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Since the birth of the state of Israel in 1948, Israel and stories about the Middle East have been on the cover of TIME more than any other international subject except the Cold War. During that time, we've done some 68 covers on the Middle East, encompassing Israel and the unending cycle of Arab-Israeli problems...
...struggle has intensified between Israel and Gaza, a sad cliché about the Middle East once again seems true--that the more things change, the more they tragically stay the same. In our 1948 cover story on the Israeli victory and its hero, David Ben-Gurion, we wrote that it was "time to stop pondering the settled question of whether there would be a Jewish state, time to start asking what kind of nation Israel...
Instead, we will have to look for a variety of solutions. Infrastructure can be financed in part by borrowing against future user fees, like tolls on roads and higher electricity rates for more reliable and cleaner power, rather than against general government revenues. This strategy can probably cover as much as 1% of GDP per year. We can introduce new taxes on the carbon emissions from coal, oil and gas to hasten our transition to sustainable energy. For example, instead of letting gasoline prices tumble now only to see them soar again shortly, we could set a floor on prices...
...budget choices were getting tougher in the 1970s, Europe faced similar dilemmas and took a different course. While Americans rejected new taxes and new domestic programs, Europeans elected governments that introduced higher taxation, mainly value-added taxes, to cover the rising costs of health care, education, infrastructure, poverty relief and international-development aid. Ultimately, the Europeans restrained excessive growth in the welfare state in order to maintain global competitiveness and rebalance their economies and succeeded in sustaining the public-private partnerships and welfare-state benefits...
...thrill of journalism. So it was especially frustrating for him to be prevented from running pictures or firsthand reporting from the war zones in northern Sri Lanka. The government claims that the 25-year-old war is finally approaching an end - an event any journalist would be eager to cover - but it has refused to allow reporters or photographers regular access to the war zones or to those areas where an estimated 230,000 people have been stranded amid the shelling...