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Smoke rises above Gaza, as seen from southern Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, November 14, 2023.
‘RELOCATION’

Israeli Lawmakers Call for the West to Take in Gaza Refugees

“Even if countries took in as few as 10,000 people each, it would help alleviate the crisis.”

Dan Ladden-Hall

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HORRIBLE

Myanmar Military Fueled Rohingya Crisis on Facebook: NYT

One of the first examples of a country using the platform against it’s own people.

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SPEAKING OUT

Bono, Bob Geldof Call Out Aung San Suu Kyi on Genocide

She was once the world’s most celebrated political prisoner, a beacon of moral authority in a troubled region. But now Aung San Suu Kyi’s rock-star supporters are turning on her.

Tom Sykes

Exclusive: The Secret Talk Burma’s Generals Didn’t Want You to Hear
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HEAR NO EVIL

The Secret Talk Burma’s Generals Didn’t Want You to Hear

Ethnic cleansing? What ethnic cleansing? That was the message, more or less, delivered by a top Burmese official to a closed-door audience in D.C.

Betsy Swan

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Nightmare

ICE Gets Away With Locking Up American as Illegal Immigrant

An ICE agent sent through—and his supervisors approved—mistaken paperwork ‘proving’ Davino Watson wasn’t a citizen. And no one’s been held to account for the catastrophic screw-up.

Harry Siegel

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A CUT ABOVE

Christian Bale on Trump’s ‘Dictatorship’

The Oscar-winning actor opens up about his new period epic ‘The Promise,’ recognizing the Armenian genocide, and the importance of a free press.

Marlow Stern

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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

A History of Botched Mass Deportations

Donald Trump is far from the first to use forced migration as a political cudgel, but he may want to learn about how it has often backfired.

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HISTORY LESSON

The Holocaust’s Forgotten Predecessor

Nowhere was the debate over what was going on in Turkey to the Armenians more heated than Germany—and the conclusions drawn would change history.

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HARD TRUTH

Yes, Slaughter of Armenians Was Genocide

The Turkish government may not want to admit it, but the murder and removal of millions of Armenians was genocide.

Ronald Grigor Suny

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