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...materialize, these Palestinians were kept in refugee camps ¬and denied absorption by the same Arab governments that had encouraged them to leave.. Even in Gaza, now sovereign Palestinian territory, refugee camps endure, preserved by the same leaders vehemently demanding a refugee right of return. This singular focus on the dispossession of the Palestinian Arabs and the culpability of Israel, without acknowledgment of the injustice done to these refugees by their own leaders or of the violence inflicted upon Jewish populations in Muslim countries, hinders constructive discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Commemorating the Nakba has become another...
...civilizations. In his speech at the U.N., he will reiterate his predecessors' commitment to peace and diplomacy as the best way to tackle world problems. But he will likely challenge political leaders to defend religious liberty as the first priority for building a peaceful future. Two days later, this singular religious figure, leader of 1 billion faithful, will travel downtown to witness the remains of what happens when faith is instead the most efficient weapon for sowing hatred and destruction...
Meanwhile, unions continue to hold sway over a critical bloc of leftist politicians who say the singular priority is to limit job cuts to a minimum. At the same time, there is another sideshow: leaders from the North and from Rome are fighting with each other over whether to keep Milan's Malpensa airport as the key international hub for the airline, or return that role to Rome's Fiumicino...
...involved in seemed like a kangaroo court. “I felt like they had already decided the version of events they were going to accept as fact before actually engaging in the investigation,” he says, “and that because they had this singular notion of what had happened, they weren’t willing to consider anything—any statements, any hard evidence—that didn’t jibe with their preconceived sequence of events...
...book's absence of a singular, cohesive revelation won't stop you from enjoying its vignettes of Indian traffic or the cozy London pub, however. Weiner's travel writing delivers nourishing moments of humor and lucidity. (Travel, he reminds us, comes from the French word travail, or work, a thing that was for centuries relegated to unlucky pilgrims, nomads and soldiers who were forced to wander.) Sardonic observation is his particular gift. In the capital of Moldova - among the least happy places in the world according to the WDH - he walks past a couple of cops who "like all Moldovan...