As she answered customer questions in fluent Hebrew, she slipped jeans, skirts, and blouses out of plastic bags, refolded them so the creases matched and organized them for shelving. Then she explained to two visitors, in her native Arabic, why she works in a Jewish area of west Jerusalem, rather than in east Jerusalem, where she lives, as do most of the more than 300,000 Arabs of Jerusalem. “I tried to work several times on the Arab side, but it didn’t work out,” said Ro’aa, who declined to allow her family name to be used because of the sensitivity of the subject.

“There were no benefits, my salary was always two months late. On the Israeli side you get paid more and receive all your benefits, and if they see you are working hard you get promoted.” Marik Shtern, a researcher at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies who has delved into the economic gap, says that the city’s Arabs remain underrepresented in knowledge industries where the salary is higher, although there are signs this is changing. They are principally salespeople, security guards and call-center employees.

Even so, both sides gain from the economic interchange. “The thing that holds the city together from fragmentation is the economy and the shared interest both sides have in this dual economy,” Shtern said. “The Palestinians are dependent on the Israelis for a source of income and the Israelis are dependent on them as workers. In some way this stabilizes the situation and keeps it from deteriorating into war in the streets.”

Sometimes we forget if we look back 50 years that the spark which really ignited the Six-Day War came also from Israel’s south, when Egypt imposed a naval blockade at the Straits of Tiran, closing off Israeli shipping through the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean. The Red Sea still has the potential of generating conflict in the future. It requires that we be very aware of what is going on there.

The first development that is causing a vast increase in tensions throughout this area is the struggle over the sources of the Nile River. For most of recent history, Egypt was the dominant actor over the Nile and, through various treaties negotiated by the British, the Egyptians also dominated the tributaries of the Nile. But now several things have happened.

First, the countries along the White Nile, which goes deep into Africa up to Lake Victoria, in the past were underdeveloped and their water needs were very limited. Now they are insisting on a greater share of water, which will affect the ultimate flow of water to the Nile River and to Egypt.

But far more serious is what’s going on with the other tributary of the Nile known as the Blue Nile. It flows through Ethiopia. There, Ethiopia is planning what is called the “Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam, and by damming the Blue Nile, despite all the guarantees that Ethiopia can offer, Egypt is very concerned that its principal source of water for the Nile River may be denied.

Of all the nations that are positioning themselves in the Horn of Africa, like Iran, the US, Turkey, France, the United Arab Emirates, and Russia, careful attention should be given to the presence of China in Djibouti where China has constructed one of its first naval bases at the gateway to the Middle East. Given the interests of all the actors appearing now in the Red Sea, the whole region has become far more combustible than it was in the past.

With all the focus on Syria and Iraq in recent years, it may be necessary to give greater attention to the theater of the Red Sea which in the next decade could become a serious source of international conflict.

Michigan State students and staffers in its basketball and football programs also have faced accusations of rape. The scandal at Michigan State University is similar to the Jerry Sandusky pedophile scandal at Penn State, as it is a systemic problem in schools that is covered up and protected by the institutions.

This report makes the case that the sordid history of sex abuse and cover up by top officials in sports, entertainment, and politics are not merely occasional events involving a small number of people, but now are systemic among the elite class in many walks of life. Although it is not mentioned in this report, there is evidence that those who seek influence over national and international leaders operate pedophilia rings in high places mainly as recruiting pools from which to select new leaders.

By doing so, the threat of public exposure can be used as a means of guaranteeing loyalty and obedience. In other words, sexual deviants are deliberately recruited for leadership positions in society so they can be controlled.

“Measures of actual and implied volatility are often used as an indicator of risk to inform investment decisions. When they’re low, the world appears less risky, so less compensation appears to be needed for risk,” said Mr Brazier, the Bank’s executive director for financial stability strategy and risk.

“The trouble is that these are not measures of risk. They are a reflection of the risk appetite of those selling insurance. Taking on more risk because implied volatility is low is the equivalent of ignoring the road conditions and driving faster because your insurance got cheaper as a herd of new entrants flooded the car insurance market.” This could be building up problems for the future, he said.

First, he recognizes that Iran now matters more to the Arabs than Palestine. With Iran and Islamic militants threatening the survival of major Arab states, many Arab leaders have quietly decided to align with Israel — dialing down their interest in the Palestinian drama. Consider that President Trump’s plan to move the United States’ embassy in Israel to Jerusalem did not touch off huge protests in Arab capitals or angry editorials in the Arab press.

Kushner was one of the strongest voices inside the White House in favor of the long-promised move. Any other mediator would fret that the move would needlessly complicate his job. Kushner knows that Iran has replaced Palestine as the center of Arab interest, and he spotted an opportunity that few in Washington saw.

Second, Kushner realizes that the younger Arab generation has a fundamentally different perspective from that of its elders. More than 60 percent of Arabs are too young to remember the 1967 and 1973 wars with Israel, and many more regard them as ancient history. Consider an American equivalent; how many millennials are outraged at the fate of South Vietnam?

As a result, younger Arabs largely accept Israel’s existence as a settled fact, and generally see trading with its prosperous economy as essential to their own economic growth. I know. I have heard them tell me these things in the privacy of their living rooms. Their septuagenarian leaders do not share their views, and punish younger leaders who try to independently engage with Israelis — which only deepens the divide.

When he launched his investigation, Moskoff was shocked to find resistance from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that tried to prevent him from accessing the site. “I was naive but I was immediately made aware of a political battle being fought in the guise of archaeology,” Moskoff told Breaking Israel News. “These groups wield a lot of power. They are working to prevent me from going into the tunnels under Mount Zion. Their method is very simple: they take us to court and claim we are harming the Palestinian rights,” he continued.

“These NGO’s are trying to discredit the Biblical basis of the archaeology in Israel,” Moskoff said. “This is a political battle being fought on the battlefield of archaeology, but the archaeological sites are also the Biblical sites. They are hijacking the science of archaeology for what is really a religious battle.”

“The battle going on now for Mount Zion goes much deeper,” he added. “The battle is for the identity of the site: whether it is a Jewish religious site, a Catholic site, or whether it is simply a tourist attraction with no religious significance. The Palestinians have no say here and don’t have any cultural or religious connection to the site,” he continued. “Their influence has all but disappeared, but the NGO’s still cause trouble, speaking very loudly in their name.”

Under the proposed legislation, anyone who publicly describes concentration camps built by Nazi Germany on Polish soil as "Polish death camps" could be punished by a fine or up to three years in jail. More than 1 million people - the majority of them Jews - were murdered at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which was located in Nazi-occupied Polish territory, during World War II.

Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz accused Poland of attempting to "brush off its own responsibilty" in the Holocaust. "No Polish law can change history. We will remember and not forget," Yair Lapid of the opposition Yesh Atid party said on Twitter.

This is absurdly unconstitutional. But in light of the remarkably horrifying case of Riverside County couple David and Louise Turpin, whose 13 children were reportedly chained, malnourished, and clearly abused, the media and lawmakers have chosen to focus on one coincidental detail — the Turpins were also registered as homeschoolers.

Using the Turpins' case as one extreme example to bolster their platform, legislators are now looking to increase government regulations of homeschooling in California, which may lay the groundwork for increased regulation nationwide. Already, state legislators have suggested they will introduce legislation to cure the supposed “problem” of laxity in private school choice options, which includes homeschooling.

Homeschool Legal Defense Association President Mike Smith said in a message last week to members and friends of the organization, “These efforts incorrectly assume that homeschooling is the problem here. Hasty legislation based on horrific and criminal behavior — behavior that has nothing to do with homeschooling — would be unfair to the thousands of law-abiding families in California who work hard to provide a safe and loving environment for their children.”