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May 15th marks 75 years since the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” when roughly 750,000 Palestinians some two-thirds of Palestine’s Arab population were forced to flee their homes over the course of Israel’s creation in 1948. Three-quarters of a century later, the number of Palestinian refugees now stands at over 8 million, including those displaced in 1948 and 1967, making them the largest and oldest unsettled refugee population in the world. ....
Seventy years after its founding with an 18-month mandate to provide emergency aid to the “Palestine refugees,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has grown into a gargantuan $1.2 billion, 30,000-strong “phantom sovereignty”[1]Â that has done more than any other international actor to perpetuate the “refugee problem” it was established to solve. With the Trump administration slashing its donation to the agency, and the Gulf states and the Europeans demanding greater transparency regarding its finances and operations, UNRWA may at long last be approaching its moment of truth. The Original Mandate and Its Demise ....
moreh book tv in prime time all this week on c-span2 collected photographs and was particularly again interested in the 19th century civil war in particular. these are to friends, union and confederate who knew each other prior to the civil war who fought against each other at the battle in 1862 survive the war and came out alive and learn after the war mchugh we are in 800 sitting on the parched talking about the old days is a rather wonderful book called the art, and it meant the surviving beyond survival talks about how the arts and the kraft how niquette insanity until the person was so bad a lot of the camps and there was a high incidence of suicide, so people would make these little things of beauty to get to each other just as a way to say we support you and we care about you were. the weekend of may 5th and 6th from oklahoma city on c-span2 landsea 73. ashraf khalil as a journalist who covers the middle east. he recently spoke at the new america foundati ....
from what we have seen, we have cover these situations. we are very careful about that. i think perhaps we should be even more careful when we cover serious, how we cover it, what does it mean. how much is revolution touching on the question of minorities and so forth. how much does it spill over to the region? this cannot just be we are not a news network. we are not an ngo. there are developments in libya and syria. it is not a question of the revolution being against the machines. if you are, you should be an ngo. we are not. i don t think we are. by default, we might appear to be with revolution. as soon as you show the image of a child on a tank, the viewer, from that image, concludes that a child must not be very happy with the tank. by default. when you cover a correct regime oppression, bombardment of cities, when you lay out these images and to report that is, you are by default not on the side of the people. for example, saudi arabia and i run by ron a ....