For a little more background on the recent Israeli settlement decisions, Foreign Policy has published a short essay on the West Bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim. This settlement has been around for some time, and all the new settlements proposals are essentially plans to expand around it. The significance of these moves for a future peace between Israelis and Palestinians is difficult to overstate.
As all of you know, I’ve been keeping track of the rise of right-wing parties in Europe. Svoboda is a nationalist party in Ukraine that entered Parliament for the first time last October. Its agenda is fervently Ukranian and its leader once referred to the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia.” Its rise has been meteoric, similar to the rise of the Golden Dawn in Greece, Jobbik in Hungary, and the True Finns in Finland. The overall rise of right-wing parties closely mimics the rise of fascism in the 1920s and 30s.
Now for something you already know. Textbook prices are out of control–but more out of control than any reasonable person would believe. Check out this graph:
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