May 12, 2021
Palestinians from Gaza leaving the occupied West Bank to go to Jordan in 1968.Credit.Agence France-Presse Getty Images
By Peter Beinart
Mr. Beinart, a contributing Opinion writer who focuses on politics and foreign policy, is an editor at large of Jewish Currents, where a version of this essay appeared.
Why has the impending eviction of six Palestinian families in East Jerusalem drawn Israelis and Palestinians into a conflict that appears to be spiraling toward yet another war? Because of a word that in the American Jewish community remains largely taboo: the Nakba.
The Nakba, or “catastrophe” in Arabic, need not refer only to the more than 700,000 Palestinians who were expelled or fled in terror during Israel’s founding. It can also evoke the many expulsions that have occurred since: the about 300,000 Palestinians whom Israel displaced when it conquered the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967; the roughly 250,000 Palestinians who could not return to the West B
COCC Commencement Is Drive-Thru Event
Central Oregon Community College’s (COCC) 2021 commencement ceremony will take place on the Bend campus as a drive-thru event, beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, June 12. The event will be open to graduates of both 2021 and 2020, who will be assigned a specific time slot depending on their major. Graduates will be able to exit their vehicle, in turn, and receive their degree or certificate on stage. College officials have coordinated the event to occur only on campus roadways, to avoid any congestion on College Way.
“We anticipate awarding 200 degrees and certificates at commencement this year,” said Tyler Hayes, COCC’s director of admissions, regarding expected attendees. In all, COCC will award some 650 degrees and certificates for the 2020-21 academic year.
More than half of all eligible Latinos voted in the 2020 election, a historic number, according to a study from City University of New York.
Staff at the university determined that 53.7 percent of all eligible Latinos voted in the 2020 election. According to the study, that number had never before surpassed 50 percent.
In 2016, only 47.3 percent of eligible Latino voters cast ballots in the election.
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About 18.7 million Latinos voted in the 2020 election, a large increase from the 15.3 million that cast ballots in 2016.
Those voters accounted for more than a tenth of all ballots cast in the election. Latinos made up 10.2 percent of all votes in November’s election, up from 9.2 percent in 2016.
Amid warnings of a full scale war, Biden administration dispatches envoy to Middle East Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – The Biden administration dispatched a top State Department diplomat to the Middle East immediately to try to de-escalate the deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday.
President Joe Biden faces growing pressure to help stem the violence and heightened international alarm over the spiraling death toll. The United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East, Tor Wennesland, warned on Wednesday that the situation is escalating toward full scale war.
More than 80 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting, including 17 children and seven women, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, and another 480 people have been wounded. Hamas, the Islamic militant group that seized power in Gaza in 2007, acknowledged that a top commander and several o
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