More tension in the Gaza Strip. The violence between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has been escalating steadily, but these most recent attacks signal more than the usual tension. Unfortunately, it seems as if matters are building to a crisis stage.
Counterfactual questions are always intriguing: asking the question “what if?” stimulates our thought processes in novel ways, even though there are never any answers. The US election prompted a massive “what if” question in China, with bloggers asking the question, “what would China look like if it help an election along the lines of an American election?” The question was allowed to circulate by the censors, and the results are quite interesting.
The country of Mali has been troubled by a serious internal dispute that emerged after the collapse of the Qaddaffi regime in Libya. After the collapse in Libya, the Tuareg people, who had long bristled under the rule of the central government in Mali, rebelled, and elements of al-Qaeda have moved into northern Mali. Efforts by other African states to quell the unrest in Mali have been unsuccessful, and it seems clear that a more significant outside effort has to be launched.
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