Vox. Why Israel is at war in Gaza, explained in less than 3 minutes. Israel is the world's only Jewish state, located just east of the Mediterranean Sea. Palestinians, the Arab population that hails from the land Israel now controls, refer to the territory as Palestine, and want to establish a state by that name on all or part of the same land. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over who gets what land and how it's controlled. Israel in red, Palestinian-majority territories in pink. Wikimedia Commons Though both Jews and Arab Muslims date their claims to the land back a couple thousand years, the current political conflict began in the early 20th century.
The 1967 war is particularly important for today's conflict, as it left Israel in control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, two territories home to large Palestinian populations: Note that, since 1967, Israel has returned Sinai to Egypt. Today, the West Bank is nominally controlled by the Palestinian Authority and is under Israeli occupation. BBC - Homepage. Han Han Digest :: China's #1 blogger translated. Shocking: U.S. Troops Average One Suicide a Day. Does Occupy signal the death of contemporary art? 30 April 2012Last updated at 07:15 ET By Paul Mason Economics editor, Newsnight Guerrilla illuminators bring Occupy protest art to the streets of New York There has been so much art centred around the Occupy protests that it is beginning to feel like a new artistic movement. What defines it, and could it supplant the world of the galleries? We get in the van and speed along to Bed-Stuy.
I am with The Illuminators - a group of performance artists whose art is to shine revolutionary logos onto buildings in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest, including one that has become iconic - the 99% logo, known to protesters as "the bat signal". In the van is not just a projector and a laptop, but also posters, a mobile library, and a whole vat of hot chocolate. Molly Crabapple's Vampire Squid was appropriated by Occupy protesters across the US And Mark Read, the driver and instigator, is a college lecturer in media studies. "The bat signal is really simple.
Which is why I am here. “Start Quote. China 'forced abortion photo' sparks outrage. 14 June 2012Last updated at 06:52 ET China's birth control policy has drawn much criticism A photo showing a foetus whose mother was forced to have an abortion has shocked China web users. Feng Jiamei, from Shaanxi province, was made to undergo the procedure in the seventh month of pregnancy, local officials said after investigating. Ms Feng was forced into the abortion as she could not pay the fine for having a second child, US-based activists said. Rights groups say China's one-child policy has meant women being coerced into abortions, which Beijing denies.
"Feng Jianmei's story demonstrates how the One-Child Policy continues to sanction violence against women every day," said Chai Ling of the US-based activist group All Girls Allowed. The group says it spoke to Ms Feng and her husband Deng Jiyuan after the incident. Media reports from China says Ms Feng has been traumatised by what has happened. Chinese law clearly prohibits abortions beyond six months. 'Harmed image of family planning'