To help explain the conflict in Gaza, I have chosen two articles that articulate the positions of both sides. The first, by Greg Shupak, gives the Palestinian point of view, particularly on the perception of Hamas toward the proposals for cease-fires that have been advanced. The second is by Michael Herzog from Foreign Policy which is titled “A War We Didn’t Want. Some of the points are responsive, but many of them pass like ships in the night. Some things are not noticed or never seen even though they are in plain view.
Not surprisingly, the Russian public is receiving a completely different understanding of the crash of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine. Before one dismisses these explanations as fanciful (although, admittedly, some of them are), try a thought experiment. Is there any way for the people in the West to know whether or not the US and European explanations are equally spurious? After all, virtually all of the information about how the airliner was brought down is coming from Western intelligence sources.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the global temperature for June was the highest ever recorded for that month. It follows a record-setting month of May as well. The global June temperature was 16.2C (61.2F), which is 0.7C higher than the 20th-century average. It beat 2010’s record by one-twentieth of a degree. Not all regions of the world recorded such high temperatures, so people in some areas of the world did not experience the record.
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