For a while the subject of lone wolf attacks was accorded considerable coverage in Western Media. The big story now is the immigration crisis in Europe. Thanks to unwise promises, principally by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the swarm of immigrants crossing the Mediterranean has now become...
?When the War was over: European refugees after 1945? was produced in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The exhibition explores the lives of more than 11 million people who found themselves stranded in Europe in 1945 followi...
Who comes to mind when you picture a refugee? You probably don't imagine a European. But if you were a child of World War II and asked your parents what a refugee was, they would probably have described someone from Europe. More than 40 million Europeans were displaced by the war. The...
Thank G-d it was around 4am and there was no one present. No injuries. For the past seven nights the Houthis have been firing missiles and launching explosive laden drones into the “Merkaz” – the fairly densely packed area between Beersheva to the south and Herzliya/Netanya to the nort...
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But it was not to be.Over twenty years ago, I was asked to visit a country in Eastern Europe where there had been a war. As a result, there were accusations of crimes from both sides. My job was to look into these claims and make a report for the United Nations. This involved ...
Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe 2018-03-02 Jennifer Johnson At the moment, Europe has witnessed where masses of a human population are crossing its borders. These are desperate persons fleeing war-torn Syria. They are looking for safety which is apparently provided by European countries...
While the potato blight struck across Europe, no corner of the continent was as dependent on tubers for survival as Ireland, which was mired in extreme poverty as a result of centuries of British rule. Packed with nutrition and easy to grow, potatoes were the only practical crop that could...
The country’s international airport in Damascus was abandoned, and rebels said they had entered the notorious Saydnaya military prison north of the capital, where human rights groups say thousands of Syrians have been tortured and killed by the Assad regime. ...
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