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Protesters clashed with police upon Mexican President Felipe Calderón's arrival in Ciudad Juárez on March 16, three days after three people linked to the U.S. consulate were slain. The high-profile murders are the latest to rack Mexico's most violent city, where an estimated 4,500 people have been killed in drug-related attacks since 2008. With the crime surge increasing public discontent with the government's military-led offensive against cartels, Calderón has promised to redirect some resources to social-reform programs...
...barred from returning. And in one of the most startling observations in the book, he shows that Israeli leaders understood exactly why the Palestinians of Gaza would turn to violence. He quotes General Moshe Dayan, Israel's most celebrated military commander, at the April 1956 funeral of a kibbutznik slain by Palestinian fedayeen near the Gaza border, warning Israelis that they faced an intractable conflict that they had no choice but to fight . "Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today," Dayan said at the funeral. "For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps...